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Social protection systems consist of the set of (a) all public transfers in a society that seeks to provide income security and prevent and alleviate poverty; (b) all measures that guarantee public access to health and social services; (c) all measures that protect workers’ income, health and well-being. Social protection thus seeks to free people from social insecurity and consequential existential fear and is thus inevitably an income redistributive system. If designed, managed and administered well, social protection systems generally achieve that objective.
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Cichon, M., Scholz, W. (2009). Social Security, Social Impact and Economic Performance: a Farewell to Three Famous Myths. In: Townsend, P. (eds) Building Decent Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230251052_4
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