www.worldbank.org/sp

The mission of the Social Protection sector is to assist World Bank country clients to alleviate poverty and promote equitable and sustainable growth through:

• Expanding Opportunities: Helping the creation of good jobs through better labor market
  regulations, active and passive labor market policies, and wage setting processes;
• Providing Security: Assisting in better managing risks to reduce vulnerability, securing an
  asset-base and being able to engage in higher risk/higher return activities
• Enhancing Equity: Providing minimum levels of subsistence and helping to correct marketbased
  distributive outcomes... Overview.

TOPICS
Child Labor	Safety Nets & Transfers
Disability	Social Funds
Labor Markets	Social Risk Management
Pensions