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Working Paper

Social Protection in Myanmar: Making the Case for Holistic Policy Reform

Published on 15 December 2011

Myanmar is a country with a very low per capita income and distressing failures in nutrition, health, education, and others areas of social development. Currently, there appears to be some political softening, and in the realm of policymaking, a series of adaptations have been gradually introduced over the past three years.

This paper examines vulnerability and poverty dynamics in the country and its evolving social protection framework. Building on pertinent regional examples, the paper makes the case for holistic social protection policy responses in the domains of social transfers for livelihood support and access to finance, education and health access, child protection, protection from exclusion, and as an emergency response. The outlook argues that comprehensive inclusive and ultimately transformative social protection needs to be introduced and could be within reach, as an integral part of deeper systemic reform in Myanmar.

Publication details

published by
IDS
authors
Nishino, Y. and Koehler, G.
journal
IDS Working Paper, issue 386
isbn
978 1 78118 042 6

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Programmes and centres
Centre for Social Protection
Region
Myanmar

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