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Federative Republic of Brazil - Social Insurance and Labor Supply : Assessing Incentives and Redistribution
World Bank - 2013
system in terms of incentives and redistribution. It starts with an overview of institutional arrangements, programs, and … could 'correct' incentives by making redistribution more transparent and progressive. A behavioral life-cycle model …
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Togo : Towards a National Social Protection Policy and Strategy
World Bank - 2012
Over the last several years, the Government of Togo has made important advances in the area of social protection. Although Togo has had limited social insurance and social assistance programs, the economic shock and natural disasters starting in 2008 brought the need for better mechanisms of...
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Stocktaking of Adaptive Social Protection and Disaster Risk Management
World Bank - 2023
In today's global environment, countries face various shocks, such as natural hazards, economic and health crises, conflict, violence, and forced displacement. Disasters triggered by natural hazards cause billions of dollars in damage per year, and these disasters, and their costs, are...
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Efficiency and equity of a marginal tax reform : income, quality, and price elasticities for Mexico
Nicita, Alessandro - 2004
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Achieving effective social protection for all in Latin America and the Caribbean : from right to reality
Ribe, Helena - 2010
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Insurance against covariate shocks : the role of index-based insurance in social protection in low-income countries of Africa
Alderman, Harold - 2007
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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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Global redistribution of income
Bourguignon, François - 2006
with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …
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Decomposing changes in income inequality into vertical and horizontal redistribution and reranking, with applications to China and Vietnam
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …
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Distributional effects of crises : / the role of financial transfers
Halac, Marina - 2003
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