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Social Safety Nets in Developing Countries
Geoff Riley
9th July 2015
New research from the World Bank underlines the lack of social safety nets facing hundreds of millions of people in many of the world's poorest countries. The World Bank finds that only 1/3 of the world's poor are covered by safety nets programmes with the largest gaps in Sub-saharan Africa and South Asia.
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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