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Monday June 3rd, 2024

Reforming social protection: why and how?

Sri Lanka’s Samurdhi cash transfer scheme for the poor was notorious for its poor governance. Recently the World Bank has provided technical assistance to the government to design a new social protection cash transfer scheme Aswesuma. Here the World Bank’s René Leon Solano discusses why social protection matters, its many facets and the challenges of policy and implementation.