Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World.(Review)

Lustig, Nora, ed. Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press 310 pp., $21.49 paper ISBN 0-8157-5321-7 paper Publication Date: October 2001

The developing world is those countries lacking the core economic wherewithal to attain material prosperity and provide social protection simultaneously for citizens to be rich or avoid grinding poverty. Nora Lustig and the Shielding the Poor contributors focus on the public policies required to attack those conditions and traditional forces that perpetuate misery among two-thirds of the human species. In essence, developing governments must have in place insurance and ...

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