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Traditionally, social protection has been used in
the European welfare state and other parts of the
developed world to maintain a certain living standard,
and address transient poverty. One of the first examples
of state-provided social protection can be tracked to the
Roman Emperor Trajan, who expanded a program for free
grain to include more poor citizens of the empire. In
addition, he instituted public funds to support poor
Poverty reduction
Pro-poor growth
Decent work
Conclusions
There are two main schools of thought concerning
scope of social protection. Universalism argues that
each person, by merit of simply being a citizen should
be entitled to benefits from social protection
programs. Such a policy would avoid meanstesting and any conditionalities such as work
requirements. One of the greatest benefits to this
policy perspective is social solidarity, since everyone
contributes collaboratively to a system that everyone
Means of provision
References
1. United Nations Research Institute for Social
Development (UNRISD). 2010.