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SUMMARY:GDI Lecture: Beyond the World Bank: The Fight for Universal Socia
 l Protection in the Global South
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matthew Greenslade\, Economist and former employee o
 f the UK Department for International Development\n\nMatthew Greenslade 
 describes the damage being done by the World Bank's insistence on pursui
 ng a poverty-targeted approach to social protection (social security\, o
 r the benefit system) in lower income countries. \n\nMatthew describes w
 hy the World Bank does what it does and describes successes in the globa
 l fight for a more universal approach which is led by governments and su
 pported by the UN and NGOs\, a fight we can all support. Poverty targeti
 ng has intuitive appeal but is error-strewn and can cause social unrest\
 , setting back the development of universal social protection systems fo
 r years. \n\nNearly half of the world’s population does not have access 
 to social protection\, leaving them vulnerable to life events and crises
  such as pandemics and climate-related events\, and making it harder for
  nations to develop and make a successful transition to low-carbon growt
 h. \n\nMatthew Greenslade is an economist who has worked on social prote
 ction for 25 years\, first as a government official on the UK benefit sy
 stems\, from 1996 to 2003\, then in developing countries for the UK Depa
 rtment for International Development\, from 2003 to 2016\, and after tha
 t as a consultant with a company called Development Pathways.\n\nMatthew
  has just published a book\, ‘Beyond the World Bank: The Fight for Unive
 rsal Social Protection in the Global South’ which is free to download. H
 ard copies are available with a 20% discount\, using discount code GLR B
 D8. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G32\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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