Towards Adaptive Social Protection in Brazil - Assessing the Adaptiveness of Brazil’s Social Protection System
The frequency and cost of climate change-related disasters have been on the rise in Brazil in the recent decades. Despite Brazil’s progress in decreasing poverty over the past decades, climate change is posing a threat to those achievements. The growing intensity and frequency of shocks in the country, along with the potential to push more people into poverty, make it increasingly important for Brazil to prioritize specific investments and efforts that support the advancement of the Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) Agenda. The ASP Stress Test (ASP ST) is a questionnaire-style tool developed by the World Bank to evaluate a country’s social protection system’s ability to prepare and respond to covariate shocks. In the case of Brazil, the ST assessment was conducted through a desk review and supplemented by a round of virtual consultations with relevant government and non-government stakeholders and experts. The primary focus of the assessment was to evaluate the adaptiveness Brazil’s main cash transfer program BF. However, examples from the COVID-19 pandemic response as well as government-led responses to other shocks have also been considered to assess the adaptiveness of Brazil’s social protection system as a whole. This note summarizes the findings from an ASP ST assessment conducted in Brazil between January and March 2022.
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| Format: | Report biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2023-11-01
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| Subjects: | SOCIAL ANALYSIS, SOCIAL PROTECTION AND GROWTH, SOCIAL ASSISTANCE, CASH TRANSFERS, CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19), NO POVERTY, SDG 1, DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH, SDG 8, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099061624200027370/P1748361f0a9de073188c01aca2e49e6c86 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41795 |
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| Summary: | The frequency and cost of climate
change-related disasters have been on the rise in Brazil in
the recent decades. Despite Brazil’s progress in decreasing
poverty over the past decades, climate change is posing a
threat to those achievements. The growing intensity and
frequency of shocks in the country, along with the potential
to push more people into poverty, make it increasingly
important for Brazil to prioritize specific investments and
efforts that support the advancement of the Adaptive Social
Protection (ASP) Agenda. The ASP Stress Test (ASP ST) is a
questionnaire-style tool developed by the World Bank to
evaluate a country’s social protection system’s ability to
prepare and respond to covariate shocks. In the case of
Brazil, the ST assessment was conducted through a desk
review and supplemented by a round of virtual consultations
with relevant government and non-government stakeholders and
experts. The primary focus of the assessment was to evaluate
the adaptiveness Brazil’s main cash transfer program BF.
However, examples from the COVID-19 pandemic response as
well as government-led responses to other shocks have also
been considered to assess the adaptiveness of Brazil’s
social protection system as a whole. This note summarizes
the findings from an ASP ST assessment conducted in Brazil
between January and March 2022. |
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