Towards Universal Social Protection

Author : Simone Cecchini,Fernando Filgueira,Rodrigo Martínez,Cecilia Rossel Odriozola
Publisher : UN
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UIUC:30112116029015

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Towards Universal Social Protection by Simone Cecchini,Fernando Filgueira,Rodrigo Martínez,Cecilia Rossel Odriozola Pdf

This book reflects on the public policies, programmes and regulatory frameworks that are taking a rights-based approach to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a view to achieving universal coverage. Its discussion of the policy tools and programmes pursued in the region aims to provide the reader with technical and programmatic insights for assembling and coordinating public policies within consistent and sustainable social protection systems. The combination of normative orientations and stock of technical knowledge, together with advances regarding the rights-based approach to social protection within a life cycle framework, afford the reader not only a tool box of specific social protection instruments, but also an in-depth examination of related political economy aspects.

Author : United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210575218

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Towards Universal Social Protection by United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Pdf

This book reflects on the public policies, programmes and regulatory frameworks that are taking a rights-based approach to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a view to achieving universal coverage. Its discussion of the policy tools and programmes pursued in the region aims to provide the reader with technical and programmatic insights for assembling and coordinating public policies within consistent and sustainable social protection systems. The combination of normative orientations and stock of technical knowledge, together with advances regarding the rights-based approach to social protection within a life cycle framework, afford the reader not only a tool box of specific social protection instruments, but also an in-depth examination of related political economy aspects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9221300153

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World Social Protection Report 2017-19 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Schüring, Esther,Loewe, Markus
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839109119

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Handbook on Social Protection Systems by Schüring, Esther,Loewe, Markus Pdf

This exciting and innovative Handbook provides readers with a comprehensive and globally relevant overview of the instruments, actors and design features of social protection systems, as well as their application and impacts in practice. It is the first book that centres around system building globally, a theme that has gained political importance yet has received relatively little attention in academia.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264573710

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Development Centre Studies Can Social Protection Be an Engine for Inclusive Growth? by OECD Pdf

The potential role of social protection in the development process has received heightened recognition in recent years, yet making a strong investment case for social protection remains particularly challenging in many emerging and developing countries. This report challenges us to think deeply about the economic rationale for social protection investments through an inclusive development lens. It helps us understand the links between social protection, growth and inequality; how to measure those links empirically; social protection’s impact on inclusive growth; and how to build a more solid economic case for greater social protection investments.

Author : Thomas Bowen,Carlo del Ninno,Colin Andrews,Sarah Coll-Black,Kelly Johnson,Yasuhiro Kawasoe,Adea Kryeziu,Barry Maher,Asha Williams
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781464815751

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Adaptive Social Protection by Thomas Bowen,Carlo del Ninno,Colin Andrews,Sarah Coll-Black,Kelly Johnson,Yasuhiro Kawasoe,Adea Kryeziu,Barry Maher,Asha Williams Pdf

Adaptive social protection (ASP) helps to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to the impacts of large, covariate shocks, such as natural disasters, economic crises, pandemics, conflict, and forced displacement. Through the provision of transfers and services directly to these households, ASP supports their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to the shocks they face—before, during, and after these shocks occur. Over the long term, by supporting these three capacities, ASP can provide a pathway to a more resilient state for households that may otherwise lack the resources to move out of chronically vulnerable situations. Adaptive Social Protection: Building Resilience to Shocks outlines an organizing framework for the design and implementation of ASP, providing insights into the ways in which social protection systems can be made more capable of building household resilience. By way of its four building blocks—programs, information, finance, and institutional arrangements and partnerships—the framework highlights both the elements of existing social protection systems that are the cornerstones for building household resilience, as well as the additional investments that are central to enhancing their ability to generate these outcomes. In this report, the ASP framework and its building blocks have been elaborated primarily in relation to natural disasters and associated climate change. Nevertheless, many of the priorities identified within each building block are also pertinent to the design and implementation of ASP across other types of shocks, providing a foundation for a structured approach to the advancement of this rapidly evolving and complex agenda.

Author : Katja Bender,Markus Kaltenborn,Christian Pfleiderer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136178504

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Social Protection in Developing Countries by Katja Bender,Markus Kaltenborn,Christian Pfleiderer Pdf

Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms of social protection systems introduced in recent years by many governments of low and middle-income countries. Although a growing body of literature has been concerned with the design and impact of social protection, less attention has been directed towards analyzing and explaining these reform processes themselves. Through case studies of African, Asian, and Latin American countries, this book examines the ‘global phenomenon’ of recent social protection reforms in low and middle-income areas, and how it differs across countries both in terms of scope and speed of institutional change. Exploring the major domestic and international factors affecting the political feasibility of social protection reform, the book outlines the successes and failures of recent reform initiatives. This invaluable book combines contributions from both academics and practitioner experts to give students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of social security, economics, law and political science an in-depth understanding of political reform processes in developing countries.

Author : Helena Ribe,David Robalino,Ian Walker
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821389065

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From Right to Reality by Helena Ribe,David Robalino,Ian Walker Pdf

This study highlights the interaction between social protection (SP) programs and labor markets in the Latin America region. It presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challenges caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old age income, health, unemployment risks and anti-poverty safety nets. It identifies interaction effects between SP programs and the behavioral responses of workers, firms and social protection providers, which can further undermine efforts to expand coverage, summarizing evidence from recent work across the region. The book argues for a re-design of financing to eliminate cross subsidies between members of contributory programs and subsidies that effectively tax income from formal employment. It advocates well-targeted, tax-funded, tapered subsidies to provide incentives to the savings efforts of low-income workers, coupled with an effective safety net for the extreme poor who have no capacity to contribute to financing their own social protection arrangements. It also argues for the consolidation of programs and harmonization of benefits packages across different insurers. The book develops an overall conceptual framework and presents in-depth analysis of the main SP sectors of pensions, health, unemployment insurance and labor market programs, and safety net transfers.

Author : International Labour Organization,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,United Nations Children's Fund
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251361771

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UN collaboration on social protection by International Labour Organization,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,United Nations Children's Fund Pdf

The objective of this paper is to work towards a consensus among UN agencies on how to best support countries to achieve progress towards universal social protection in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To this end the paper investigates 1) lessons learnt from past joint UN work on social protection 2) priority areas for social protection engagement 3) recommendations for improving UN collaboration and 4) next steps for the way forward.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464813566

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World Development Report 2019 by World Bank Pdf

Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. New ways of production are adopted, markets expand, and societies evolve. But some changes provoke more attention than others, in part due to the vast uncertainty involved in making predictions about the future. The 2019 World Development Report will study how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Technological progress disrupts existing systems. A new social contract is needed to smooth the transition and guard against rising inequality. Significant investments in human capital throughout a person’s lifecycle are vital to this effort. If workers are to stay competitive against machines they need to train or retool existing skills. A social protection system that includes a minimum basic level of protection for workers and citizens can complement new forms of employment. Improved private sector policies to encourage startup activity and competition can help countries compete in the digital age. Governments also need to ensure that firms pay their fair share of taxes, in part to fund this new social contract. The 2019 World Development Report presents an analysis of these issues based upon the available evidence.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264306943

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The Future of Social Protection What Works for Non-standard Workers? by OECD Pdf

Social protection systems are often still designed for the archetypical full-time dependent employee. Work patterns deviating from this model – be it self-employment or online "gig work" – can lead to gaps in social protection coverage. Globalisation and digitalisation are likely to exacerbate ...

Author : Michael Cichon,International Labour Office,International Social Security Association
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9221151220

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Financing Social Protection by Michael Cichon,International Labour Office,International Social Security Association Pdf

This publication considers the range of financing options available for the design of cost-effective and equitable social welfare systems, giving a thorough analysis of their advantages and disadvantages and their financial and economic implications. Written by practitioners for practitioners, the book discusses the design and maintenance of national social protection systems that seek to ensure effective and efficient use of available resources at the community, national and international levels while supporting long-term economic development. The book explores theoretical and practical policy questions, as well as looking at the policy process that determines the affordable levels of and scope of social protection in a given country.

Author : Lone Riisgaard,Winnie V. Mitullah,Nina Torm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000478693

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Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa by Lone Riisgaard,Winnie V. Mitullah,Nina Torm Pdf

The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in a context where informal labour markets constitute the norm, and where most workers live uncertain livelihoods with very limited access to official social protection. The dominant social protection agenda and the associated literature come with an almost exclusive focus on donor and state programmes even if their coverage is limited to small parts of the populations – and in no way stands measure to the needs. In these circumstances, people depend on other means of protection and cushioning against risks and vulnerabilities including different forms of collective self-organizing providing alternative forms of social protection. These informal, bottom-up forms of social protection are at a nascent stage of social protection discussions and little is known about the extent or models of these informal mechanisms. This book seeks to fill this gap by focusing on three important sectors of informal work, namely: transport, construction, and micro-trade in Kenya and Tanzania. It explores how the global social protection agenda interacts with informal contexts and how it fits with the actual realities of the informal workers. Consequently, the authors examine and compare the social protection models conceptualized and implemented ‘from above’ by the public authorities in Tanzania and Kenya with social protection mechanisms ‘from below’ by the informal workers own collective associations. The book will be of interest to academics in International Development Studies, Political Economy, and African Studies, as well as development practitioners and policy communities.

Author : Ugo Gentilini,Margaret Grosh,Jamele Rigolini,Ruslan Yemtsov
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781464815119

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Exploring Universal Basic Income by Ugo Gentilini,Margaret Grosh,Jamele Rigolini,Ruslan Yemtsov Pdf

Universal basic income (UBI) is emerging as one of the most hotly debated issues in development and social protection policy. But what are the features of UBI? What is it meant to achieve? How do we know, and what don’t we know, about its performance? What does it take to implement it in practice? Drawing from global evidence, literature, and survey data, this volume provides a framework to elucidate issues and trade-offs in UBI with a view to help inform choices around its appropriateness and feasibility in different contexts. Specifically, the book examines how UBI differs from or complements other social assistance programs in terms of objectives, coverage, incidence, adequacy, incentives, effects on poverty and inequality, financing, political economy, and implementation. It also reviews past and current country experiences, surveys the full range of existing policy proposals, provides original results from micro†“tax benefit simulations, and sets out a range of considerations around the analytics and practice of UBI.

Author : Centers of Disease Control,Christoph Hamelmann
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789289052658

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Key Policies for Addressing the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities by Centers of Disease Control,Christoph Hamelmann Pdf

Evidence indicates that actions within four main themes (early child development fair employment and decent work social protection and the living environment) are likely to have the greatest impact on the social determinants of health and health inequities. A systematic search and analysis of recommendations and policy guidelines from intergovernmental organizations and international bodies identified practical policy options for action on social determinants within these four themes. Policy options focused on early childhood education and care; child poverty; investment strategies for an inclusive economy; active labour market programmes; working conditions; social cash transfers; affordable housing; and planning and regulatory mechanisms to improve air quality and mitigate climate change. Applying combinations of these policy options alongside effective governance for health equity should enable WHO European Region Member States to reduce health inequities and synergize efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.