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Social Safety Nets to Support Growth and Development
Geoff Riley
26th March 2016
10 per cent of the world's population live in countries that are not covered by social safety net systems and only one third of the poor in the world are covered. Social safety nets in the form of cash, food grants, education and health services, nutritional programmes, and public works that provide temporary jobs.
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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