The mission of the Social Protection & Labor Sector is to assist World Bank country clients to alleviate poverty and promote equitable and sustainable growth through:

• Expanding Opportunities: Helping the creation of good jobs through better labor market regulations, active and passive labor market policies, and wage setting processes;
  
• Providing Security: Assisting in better managing risks to reduce vulnerability, securing an asset-base and being able to engage in higher risk/higher return activities;
  
• Enhancing Equity: Providing minimum levels of subsistence and helping to correct market-based distributive outcomes... Overview.

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