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Social Safety Nets to Support Growth and Development

Geoff Riley

26th March 2016

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10 per cent of the world's population live in countries that are not covered by social safety net systems and only one third of the poor in the world are covered. Social safety nets in the form of cash, food grants, education and health services, nutritional programmes, and public works that provide temporary jobs.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty 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 and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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