| Resumen: |
It is becoming increasingly evident that social protection has an important role to play in making
growth processes more inclusive and resilient. It contributes to enhancing equity and mitigating
vulnerability in the face of shocks and barriers to the full and productive absorption of the
labour force by market‐driven processes alone. Less acknowledged are the implications of these
contributions to broadening the domestic sources of growth so as to make the growth trajectory
more inclusive through a combination of micro, meso and macro‐level impacts on demand,
productivity and resilience.
The response to the recent crisis, and the strategies that were adopted by various countries
prior to that point to promising moves in this direction while demonstrating the potential for
both nationally adapted and innovative approaches to design and scaling‐up. Many of the
programmes were home grown and with significant potential for south‐south, north‐south,
and triangular exchange and cooperation where the terms of the discourse can be informed by
developments in the South. The recent experiences also point to gaps and areas, which need
urgent attention. The paper explores these issues from the perspective of designing for
resilience and productive inclusion.
It looks at additional sources of vulnerability that increasingly need to be better incorporated
into social protection and social policies – e.g. emergency and medium term actions to ensure
food security, the frequency of extreme weather patterns and the emerging impacts of climate
change on various crops, the growing threat of desertification in some places coupled with
alternating and unpredictable cycles of drought and excessive rainfall. |
