British politicians responded by reforming the social safety net.

Appropriate social safety net mechanisms must therefore be put into place.

(e) Safety net or welfare provisions form one aspect of social development policy.

Social security is the best cover that protects the Tunisian family and forms a good social safety net.

Government spending remains large enough to guarantee reasonable public services and a social safety net.

Implement the Social Safety Net program with special attention to ensure equality of women participation.

They also appreciate the need to build a social safety net and strengthen rural property rights.

Fourth, increased investment in the country s social safety net includes not only universal health and social insurance, but also expanded housing subsidies.

Reform must also address the related challenges of a lagging education system and an insufficient social safety net.

Moreover, Russia s demographic crisis continues, sustained by poor public health and inadequate investment in a social safety net.

But, to be clear, no one is thinking of eliminating basic services, or dismantling the social safety net.

With the rapidly changing social environment, even this safety net is fraying, most notably in the urban centres.

The reform programmes should therefore incorporate a social component and provide for an appropriate safety net, especially with regard to the vulnerable social groups.

They need time to build a social safety net capable of encouraging Chinese households to reduce their precautionary saving.

Particularly in countries which cannot afford a comprehensive social safety net, the role of the family still remains crucial.

Yes, China needs to strengthen its social safety net and to deepen domestic capital markets before consumption can take off.

In the new Five Year Plan for 2011 2015, some binding targets are set for the social safety net reforms.

Unemployment is rampant, the social safety net is non existent, and social and economic hardship could at any moment turn into a threat to political stability.

Migrant workers still feel unable truly to integrate into cities, because their social safety net remains anchored to their rural origins.

Nonetheless, it has spent the last decades successfully building a diverse economy, a democratic political system, and a strong social safety net.

It demands early intervention to put children on a positive health path, together with an adequate social safety net throughout citizens lives.

But that private sector safety net of savings is fraying.

This was a high risk strategy without a safety net.

And we can use them also as a safety net.

This never met any criticism from my voters, because educational policy and the social safety net were designed to lower workers risk aversion.

To achieve permanent urbanization, China must develop a new safety net.

The Agency's social safety net, which provided the bare essentials of life shelter, food and water had been another important feature from the start.

(g) Strengthen the implementation of social safety net mechanisms to assist the poor, the elderly and the disabled, and other populations affected by disasters.

To prevent serious social tension, China s government (at various levels) has begun to intervene by enforcing higher minimum wages, in addition to investing in a social safety net for the poor.

For example, people who suffer the most adversity can fall back on an explicit social safety net a minimum level of unemployment insurance, for example.

In a few weeks, we will put in place a social safety net that will cushion the impact of high oil prices on the poor.

Nevertheless, foreign savings cannot be expected to fund a social safety net in developing countries, except in very small countries and under very special circumstances.

The State also had a key role to play in the establishment of the social institutions that would provide a safety net during the transition.

Further, the international financial institutions must be made sensitive to the social safety net factor and to the adverse effects of adjustments required by them.

The so called safety net has suffered accordingly, as have America s poor.

The budgetary difficulties of the Government have severely constrained its ability to continue to support these people in need the social safety net has virtually collapsed.

And so without a safety net, to have something parallel on your timeline.

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net.

(c) Social security issues and safety nets

By focusing on job creation, wage increases, and the social safety net, the 12th Five Year Plan could spark a major increase in discretionary consumer purchasing power.

In all likelihood, the 22 reported dead from swine flu reflect a social safety net falling to pieces due to lack of public investment and union recalcitrance.

The World Bank's 10 million social safety net project aimed at mitigating the impact of the crisis on the most vulnerable, protect poor children and strengthen the institutional capacity of the Ministry of Social Affairs.

Individuals are more willing to take risks if there is a good safety net.

It is clear that without an enduring safety net there are no safe havens .

The second insight from the 2013 China Development Forum is the new government s focus on strengthening the social safety net as a pillar of a modern consumer society.