Social protection as social risk management: conceptual underpinnings for the social protection sector strategy paper

✍ Scribed by Robert Holzmann; Steen Jorgensen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 174 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0954-1748
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1328(199911/12)11:7<1005::aid-jid643>3.0.co;2-b

✦ Synopsis

The revolutionary idea that de®nes the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.

Peter L.