Social safety nets : issues and recent experiences /
editors Ke-young Chu and Sanjeev Gupta.
- Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
- x, 260 páginas : ilustraciones, tablas a blanco y negro ; 23 cm.
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 / 4. Economic reforms, social safety nets, and the budget in transition economies / 5 Social protections in transition countries: emerging issues / III. Country studies, 117 -- 6. Bangladesh: economic reform measures and the poor / 7. Social protection, labor market rigidity, and enterprise restructuring in China / 8. Colombia: economic adjustment and the poor / 9 Jordan: restructuring public expenditures and protecting the poor / 10. Assessing the impact of structural adjustment on the poor: the case of Malawi / 11. Mozambique: economic rehabilitation and the poor / 12. Poland: the social impact of transition / 13. Social protection during Russia's economic transformation / 14. Reforming Ukraine's social safety nets: short-term and medium-term options / Additional papers on social safety nets prepared by IMF staff, 259. Ravi Kanbur, 37 -- Ke-young Chu and Sanjeev Gupta, 63 -- Ke-young Chu and Sanjeev Gupta, 94 -- Padma Gotur, 117 -- Zu-liu Hu, 129 -- Claire Liuksila, 147 -- S. Ehtisham Ahmad, 158 -- Ronald Hicks and Odd Per Brekk, 174 -- Paulo S. Lopes and Emilio Sacerdoti, 188 -- Gerd Schwartz, 199 -- Sanjeev Gupta and Robert Hagemann, 216 -- Sanjeev Gupta, Elliott Harris, and Alexandros Mourmouras, 225 --