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Income Support for Persons with Disabilities in Middle East and North Africa : Social Insurance and Beyond

World Bank - 2016

This report proposes a toolkit which can be used to produce national assessments in MENA countries. The toolkit consists of a series of four questionnaires to be completed by institutions delivering specific programs in the areas of Social Assistance, Social Insurance, Health and Education. A...

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Republic of the Philippines Review of the Social Security System : Considerations for Strengthening Sustainability and Coverage

World Bank - 2016

This report was prepared at the request of the Philippines Social Security System (SSS) to analyze key challenges and propose reform options to improve the sustainability and expand the coverage of old age income protection for private sector workers. A simulation employing the Pension Reform...

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Republic of the Philippines Labor Market Review : Employment and Poverty

World Bank - 2016

that pervasive in-work poverty is the main challenge facing labor policy. Poverty is primarily due to low earning capacity … of in-work poverty - low education of the poor, and the scarcity of productive job opportunities. The labor market is …-paid laborers. The reduction of in-work poverty hinges on removing constraints to gainful employment in both supply side (better …

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Arab Republic of Egypt Social Sector Notes

World Bank - 2016

In response to a request from the Government of Egypt, the World Bank undertook the analysis of selected sectoral issues in education and health. The objective of the analytical task was to inform policies to enhance human development impact of social sector expenditures in line with Egypt's new...

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Estimating the Impact of Labor Taxes on Employment and the Balances of the Social Insurance Funds in Turkey

World Bank - 2009

High labor tax wedges and slow formal employment growth have combined to make labor tax reform an important economic policy issue in Turkey. This synthesis report presents the results of a series of empirical studies of the impact of a labor tax reform. The analysis was undertaken before the...

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