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Gender and microinsurance

van Leeuwen, van Leeuwen, I.W. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2005

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Gender and microinsurance

LEEUWEN, I. van - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2005

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How portable is social security for migrant workers?

Taha, Taha, N.; Messkoub, Messkoub, M.; Siegmann, … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013

This paper reviews the literature on the portability of social security entitlements for migrant workers, who moved along North-North, South- North, and South-South migration flows. Portability of social security entitlements is the ability of migrant workers to preserve, maintain, and transfer...

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Dreams that do not come true: re-addressing social security to expand old-age social protection: the case of informal workers in El Salvador.

Joya, Nancy Elizabeth Argueta - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007

This paper focuses on old-age income security, with the objective to explore obstacles and opportunities to expand social protection for informal workers in El Salvador. It first introduces the main concepts and debates on social security, social protection, coverage and informality, to later...

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Dreams that do not come true: Re-addressing social security to expand old-age social protection

Joya, Joya, N.E.A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007

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Payroll tax reduction in Brazil : Effects on employment and wages

Scherer, Scherer, C.R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2015

This paper evaluates the effects of the elimination of a payroll tax on employment and wages in four manufacturing and service sectors in Brazil in early 2012. This tax, which accounted for 20 percent of the wage bill, was levied on employers and financed social security programmes. This study...

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Economic growth, employment and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa

Messkoub, Messkoub, M. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008

This paper provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region …. Considering the high rate of unemployment (especially the youth unemployment) and poverty in most countries in the region … employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular concern to policy makers. In the short run for employment growth to be …

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Forest management in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua : reform failures?

Pellegrini, Pellegrini, L. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

conclude that there is a reform failure matched by a failure to reform. The Poverty Reduction Strategies of the three countries …

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Accountability in formal and informal institutions: a cross country analysis

de Wit, de Wit, J.W.; Akinyoade, Akinyoade, A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008

The concept and practices of accountability enjoy considerable interest today, not least due to the World Development Report WDR 2004 on service delivery, which formulated the ëtriangle of accountabilityí - specifying relations between the poor, service providers, policy makers and...

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Linking the poor to new modalities in service delivery. Partnership innovations in solid waste management in Bogotá, Colombia

Gomez, Georgina Mercedes; Turcotte, Turcotte, I. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2012

public service provision while aiming to improve the livelihoods of the poor and overcome the institutional nature of poverty …

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