The World Bank’s State of Social Protection Report 2025: The 2-Billion Person Challenge Shows that it is not Learning its Own Lessons

Writer: Matthew Greenslade

The World Bank’s long-term advocacy of poverty targeting social protection schemes has been punctuated by moments of relative enlightenment, where the costs of poverty targeting have been recognised. But its push for poverty-targeted benefits as the basis of the tax-financed side of national social protection systems has remained in place, suggesting a stark lack of internal lesson learning.

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