Processes and Stakeholders Involved in a Safety Net

SOURCE Adapted from Arribas-Bafios and Baldeon 2007. 

In recent years, there has been a great deal of innovation and learning in safety nets and allied programs. This book focuses on these program how to aspects in their myriad details. Two overarching and linked lessons are stressed  

The programs we here include as common elements in a safety net follow  

The following further clarifies what this book does and does not consider under the rubric of safety nets. 

Because we define safety nets rather narrowly, their costs are lower than some people associate with safety nets. In Uruguay, for example, total social sector expenditure (social assistance, social insurance, health, education, and other) is quite high—accounting for between 20 and 25 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) between 2000 and 2005—but expenditures on safety nets per se are only 0.5 percent of GDP (World Bank 2007g). On average, expenditures on safety nets as we define them account for 1 to 2 percent of GDP, though sometimes much less or much more. 

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