SocialProtectionPolicy:AsiaPac

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

In the past decade, governments have been building social protection systems to address poverty and deal with economic and natural shocks. This course will review the overall logic of social protection systems and dive into their design’s technical aspects. Class analytics and discussions will address topics such as social registries, grievance mechanisms, economic empowerment programs, technology, financing, and politics. The class will also conduct field visits in Indonesia to see firsthand how what sounds good in theory does not always work well in practice. Guest lectures by social protection researchers and practitioners from the government, experts from across the globe, the World Bank, and UNICEF will give students a 360-degree view of how social policy gets made and assessed.