Part 1 of this blog – available at the Development Pathways website – argued that the World Bank’s long-term advocacy of poverty targeted schemes as the basis for the tax-financed side of social protection systems contradicts messages from its own research. This blog argues that the World Bank’s promotion of social registries also contradicts the organisation’s own research, this time into the COVID-19 pandemic.

The World Bank’s ‘State of Social Protection Report 2025: The 2-Billion Person Challenge’ shows that it is not learning its own lessons – Part 2 – www.socialprotectionfloorscoalition.org