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(coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories … size of their transfers and their historic under-coverage of the population living in poverty. Transfers represent … categories. Our policy recommendations include: (i) intensifying efforts to increase coverage among the poor, using modern …
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to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a view to achieving universal coverage. The …
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in order to consolidate comprehensive social protection systems. These systems should provide universal coverage. Their …
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-standing coverage gaps in Latin American pension systems and contributed to incorporating a large number of older adults in the social …-existing contributory systems. It identifies the different types of coverage expansion strategies across Latin America and discusses three …
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Pension systems’ performance around the world can be usually assessed by considering three dimensions: coverage …, adequacy, and sustainability. This paper focuses on the coverage dimension, looking at empirical data in Latin America. It … similar indicators that make it possible to measure coverage in the various countries, both among active workers and among the …
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-age income security and their underperformance in terms of coverage, benefits, administrative costs, transition costs, social and …
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Latin America and the Caribbean must respond to the challenge of climate change while making progress with other sustainable development goals. How much will it cost to meet climate change goals in this context? This work reviews the evidence on the costs of meeting the goals the goals of the...
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Governments in new democracies launch social policies with the purported goal of alleviating the effects of poverty among the most vulnerable households, usually low income families with children. However, this goal is can be thwarted by the clientelistic distribution of social policies'...
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The paper reviews the steady and widespread decline in income inequality which has taken place in most of Latin America over 2002-10 and which - if continued for another 2-3 years - would reduce the average regional income inequality to pre-liberalization levels. The paper then focuses on the...
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