29 January 2009
DFID's Permanent Secretary, Minouche Shafik, has joined other high profile bloggers, including Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organisation and Josette Sheeran of the UN World Food Programme, on the Ideas for Development.Blog website. She looks at the global financial crisis and the impact it has on the world's poor. She makes the case for increased social protection schemes to provide better protection for the most vulnerable.
She writes:
"In every economic crisis, it is the poor that suffer the most. Whether it is individuals or countries, they are the most vulnerable and lack the savings and the institutions to support them during difficult times. In past crises, we have focused too late on adverse effects on poor people. Can we do it differently this time?"
Ideas for Development is an international Blog designed to stimulate debate on development issues. It brings together a set of senior professionals engaged in this sphere through their careers and personal convictions. The Blog aims to offer a new forum for open discussion and interaction between scholars, students, professionals of various backgrounds and the public at large. Together, they can share information, viewpoints and visions for the future with the common goal of advancing the cause of development.
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