Social safety nets : issues and recent experiences / editors Ke-young Chu and Sanjeev Gupta.

Foreword, v -- Acknowledgments, vii -- I. Overview, 3 -- 1. Social dimensions of the IMF's policy dialogue, 3 -- 2. Social safety nets in economic reform, 7 -- II. Issues in the design of social safety nets, 37 -- 3. The implications of adjustment programs for poverty: conceptual issues and analytical framework / Ravi Kanbur, 37 -- 4. Economic reforms, social safety nets, and the budget in transition economies / Ke-young Chu and Sanjeev Gupta, 63 -- 5 Social protections in transition countries: emerging issues / Ke-young Chu and Sanjeev Gupta, 94 -- III. Country studies, 117 -- 6. Bangladesh: economic reform measures and the poor / Padma Gotur, 117 -- 7. Social protection, labor market rigidity, and enterprise restructuring in China / Zu-liu Hu, 129 -- 8. Colombia: economic adjustment and the poor / Claire Liuksila, 147 -- 9 Jordan: restructuring public expenditures and protecting the poor / S. Ehtisham Ahmad, 158 -- 10. Assessing the impact of structural adjustment on the poor: the case of Malawi / Ronald Hicks and Odd Per Brekk, 174 -- 11. Mozambique: economic rehabilitation and the poor / Paulo S. Lopes and Emilio Sacerdoti, 188 -- 12. Poland: the social impact of transition / Gerd Schwartz, 199 -- 13. Social protection during Russia's economic transformation / Sanjeev Gupta and Robert Hagemann, 216 -- 14. Reforming Ukraine's social safety nets: short-term and medium-term options / Sanjeev Gupta, Elliott Harris, and Alexandros Mourmouras, 225 -- Additional papers on social safety nets prepared by IMF staff, 259.