The implementation of the right to social protection through the adoption of social protection floors 2014, para. 21
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- The generic term "social protection" has been used to describe a wide range of past and present policy approaches. In recent years, however, the main debate has been between those who support what are termed "social safety net" approaches and those who seek "social inclusion" and acknowledge "social citizenship". The principal response of the World Bank to the backlash against the austerity and adjustment policies of the Washington Consensus was to advocate social safety nets. The concept of social risk management gained special prominence, both as a means to protect the basic livelihood of the most vulnerable, or those living in chronic poverty, and to promote better managed risk-taking in response to economic and other shocks. However, the safety net approach was also widely criticized for failing to devote enough attention to structural poverty and inequality, and for its emphasis on the narrow targeting of groups for assistance. In response, rights-based approaches were promoted, not only within the human rights community, but by a broader range of development scholars and institutions. But the general debate is far from settled and critics argue that many of today's approaches to social protection continue to show a "bias towards more ameliorative and less transformative approaches to social protection, which are likely to leave the underlying causes of injustice in place."
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 21
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