Social Protection Strategy
Asian Development Bank | July 2003
Abstract
Social protection is defined as the set of policies and programs designed to reduce poverty and vulnerability by promoting efficient labor markets, diminishing people’s exposure to risks, and enhancing their capacity to protect themselves against hazards and interruption/loss of income.1 Social protection consists of five major elements: (i) labor markets, (ii) social insurance, (iii) social assistance, (iv) micro and area-based schemes to protect communities and (v) child protection. When implemented properly, these policies and programs can make a major contribution to the overarching goal of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) of reducing poverty. Social protection, as an integral part of social development, one of the three pillars of the ADB Poverty Reduction Strategy,2 aims to assist individuals to break the cycle of poverty and enhance the ADB’s developing member countries (DMCs) quality of growth by investing in human capital, increasing productivity, and reducing citizen’s vulnerability to risks.
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Asian Development Bank. 2003. Social Protection Strategy. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3553. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
World Health Organization
Urban Health Services
Rural Health Services
Nutrition and Health Care
Health Aspects of Poverty
Health and Hygiene and the Poor
Education, Health and Social Protection
Access to Health Care
Social Aspects Of Poverty
Disease Control
Occupational Hygiene
Medical Services
Health Costs
Sanitation
Diseases
Water Quality
Respiratory Diseases
Health Indicators
Disadvantaged Groups
Disadvantaged Groups
Cost of medical care
Health status indicators
Sanitation services
Sickness
Illness
Prevention of disease
Health status indicators
Cost and standard of living
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