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Government intervention need for social security improvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A theoretical analysis using the principal-agent model
Luzolo, Didier Mumpambala - 2016
African populations need better support through social protection mechanisms. Among those who need social security are millions of older people who, having worked all their lives in the formal sector, are in precarious situations with lower benefits. This study aims to appreciate theoretically,...
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The Negotiated Politics of Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hickey, Sam - 2018
Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted this. The existing literature on social assistance, or...
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On the distributional implications of social protection reforms in Latin America
Barrientos, Armando - 2011
insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …
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Formalizing safety nets and the requirements to obtain them: An increased role for identity documents in the global South
Hunter, Wendy - 2016
Having a birth certificate is a stepping stone to acquiring an array of rights and benefits, including other documents necessary to navigate in and outside of one's home country. Despite its importance, many children in the developing world never obtain a birth certificate. Whether one does so...
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Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017
We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favourable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...
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Gender priming in solidarity games: The Philippine context
Tacneng, Ruth Cadaoas; Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin - 2021
What is the effect of gender priming on solidarity behaviour? We explore a two-player solidarity game where players can insure each other against the risk of losses. In the utility function, priming is represented as the 'change in weight' given to the other player's payoff. We test this...
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Assessing pension-related tax expenditures in South Africa: Evidence from the 2016 retirement reform
Redonda, Agustin; Axelson, Christopher - 2021
order to incentivize pension savings and increase the fairness of the retirement system. Using administrative tax micro … of contributions). The reform was not effective at mitigating the regressive impact of the retirement system because the … number of individuals contributing to retirement funds increased relatively more for top earners, and it has also exacerbated …
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The expansion of economic protection for older adults in Latin America: Key design features of non-contributory pensions
Arza, Camila - 2017
developing non-contributory pensions or making eligibility rules more flexible. These policies have addressed long … protection system. The paper examines the main design features of non-contributory pensions and how they interact with pre …
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Exploring options for a universal old age pension in Tanzania Mainland
Khalfan, Twahir; Kisanga, Elineema; Leyaro, Vincent; … - 2020
universal old age pensions to guarantee at least a basic level of social security. However, such a benefit has not been …
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Incorporating informal workers into social insurance in Tanzania
Lambin, Roosa; Nyyssölä, Milla - 2022
Expansion of social protection reach among workers in the large informal economy represents a persisting and thorny challenge in the development context. In Mainland Tanzania, several domestically led policy reforms have been introduced to increasingly expand social protection for informal...
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