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Brazil's pension system takes up an oversized proportion of its social protection spending. It comprises of Regime … stands at about 10 percent of RGPS coverage, its spending amounts to almost half of RGPS pension outlays. This paper attempts … to present an integrated view of RPPS pension schemes, their influence on subnational budgets, and their interaction with …
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strategy (NSSS), was launched in 2015 and presented a comprehensive pension reform program towards a universal participatory … pension system that is fully funded, covering the elderly and destitute, private sector salaried and informal workers, and … current civil service pension systems and processes, reviewing the use of information technology to transit employees from the …
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). Policy discussions were held about reform options in January 2019 during a workshop on South Asia Civil Service Pension …, Karachi and Lahore in October, 2019. This report evaluates the current civil service pension scheme and suggests options to … consider for pension policy and parameter reforms to improve sustainability, equity and predictability. Actuarial projections …
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The Palestinian health system suffers from chronic challenges related to protracted conflict and limited health system inputs, coupled with a high burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD). Over 75 percent of the disease burden is attributable to NCD, particularly cancers, diabetes,...
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This paper presents a rapid private health sector assessment for Karnataka. Karnataka is a middle-tier Indian state with most state-wide health indicators mirroring those for the nation as a whole. In addition to these health statistics, more than half of Karnataka's children suffer from...
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There is little current information available on private health facilities in Bihar. Government has little to do with the private sector and no recent attempts have been made to survey the private formal or informal sectors. However, we know that the private sector is the dominant force in...
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This report provides insights into the current situation and overall burden of trauma and RTCs in Malawi, shares what we have learned about how to effectively run a digital trauma registry in a low-resource setting, and highlights lessons learned from the implementation of the EMS pilot
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Myanmar exhibits poor health outcomes and lags regional peers. Myanmar's Human Capital Index (HCI) score is 0.47, compared to a regional average of 0.60. Every year, 2,000 pregnant women and 50,000 children die from preventable causes, and 29 percent of children under age 5 are stunted. While...
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Lao PDR has made notable progress in improving maternal health, with materanal mortality decreasing from 1,600 per 100,000 births in 1990 to 220 in 2013.1 However, in order for further gains to be realized, at least two barriers need to be addressed - the low utilization of maternal health (MH)...
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This report summarizes the findings of an allocative efficiency analysis to support Cote d'Ivoire's national HIV response. The study was conducted at the request of the Government of Cote d'Ivoire by the World Bank, the University of Bern, the Burnet Institute and the University of New South...
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