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Social Protection in the Philippines: Current State and Challenges
Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C. - 2011
This paper reviews the current state of and challenges facing social protection in the Philippines. It describes the social protection institutions and the schemes that have been developed throughout the years. It also provides an assessment focusing on coverage, administration, and management....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421203
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Globalization and the role of public transfers in redistributing income in Latin America and the Caribbean
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Lindert, Kathy; Shapiro, Joseph - 2009
redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty … unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance …
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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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Social protection and response to COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean: Innovations in registration and payment systems
Palomo, Nurth; Faulbaum, Luis Vargas; Machado, Anna Carolina - 2022
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the foundations of the economy and provoked devastating social effects in all the countries in the world, being Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) one of the most affected regions. This report updates the regional overview of the response measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013407263
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Needs vs expediency: Poverty reduction and social development in post-conflict countries
Addison, Tony; Gisselquist, Rachel; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2015
Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418651
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Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980 - 2016
Chinyoka, Isaac - 2017
poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688572
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Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) in anti-poverty programs: An empirical approach with panel data for the Mexican case of PROSPERA-oportunidades (2002-2012)
Saucedo Delgado, Odra Angélica; Kadelbach, Vivian; … - In: Economies 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-13
poverty. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of conditional cash transfer programs as a long-term incentive in the use of … protection intervention program in combating poverty in Mexico. …
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Can Social Protection Really Make a Significant Contribution to Poverty Reduction? The Case of Romania
Ifrim, Mihaela - In: CES Working Papers 6 (2014) 2, pp. 97-107
those in need, public solutions are expected to eliminate poverty through social protection programs. The purpose of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012017138
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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018
Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011842213
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
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