The Role of Social Protection within a Social Market Economy
- Social protection refers to the entire system of protective measures that assist individuals, households, and communities to better manage risks and economic shocks and that provide support to the critically vulnerable. Among the major risks covered are illness, accident, death, unemployment, or old age. Social protection includes public as well as private approaches.
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | Katja Bender |
| Parent Title (English): | Küsel, Maenner et al. (Eds.): The social and ecological market - A model for Asian development? |
| First Page: | 324 |
| Last Page: | 326 |
| Publisher: | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH |
| Place of publication: | Eschborn |
| Publication year: | 2008 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 36 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste / 361 Soziale Probleme und Sozialhilfe im Allgemeinen |
| Entry in this database: | 2015/04/02 |
