Latvia Welfare Reform Project

LOAN AMOUNT: IBRD—US$18.1 million

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The project will help Latvia establish a modern, fully affordable social insurance and old-age security system and will assure delivery of social assistance to the most needy such as the poor, handicapped, single mothers, and battered women and children. For more information, call Jan Pakulski at (202) 473-1797, fax at 522-3362, or e-mail JPakulski@worldbank.org