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South Africa has an incomplete social protection system without a mandatory pension savings scheme. Designing a … universal insurance pension system would allow to reduce the important government funded pension grant system and ensure that …, with often a low pension. Moreover, South Africa has a dual, public and private, health care system. Half of the country …
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- India's elderly poor. The results show that during a time period of social pension reforms, exclusion and inclusion errors … the transparency of social pension allocation were indeed achieved, such that possession of the Below Poverty Line ration … reforms individuals with direct connections to local government officials are more likely to access social pension benefits …
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The paper seeks to take stock of some of the key APEC documents/reports relevant to social protection and safety net programs, and also of the experience of APEC member-economies, with special focus on the Philippines, in implementing social protection measures. In particular, it attempts to...
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improvement of the non-state pension provision of Ukraine in the system of strengthening social security and preventing the … non-state pension provision in Ukraine and the behavioural aspects of its beneficiaries when choosing a financial … intermediary in the implementation of a new metadata specification based on three areas: banking institutions, non-state pension …
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Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as after childbirth, and to be impeded by social norms from working in the formal sector. This work pattern undermines productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks,...
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Tanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social protection policies since the 2000s, from the perspective...
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Recipients of government transfers are economically disadvantaged, yet little is known about how their circumstances evolve leading up to program receipt. Using twenty-five years of survey data as well as administrative health records, we establish three new stylized facts around enrollment in...
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system for the persons insured and in the premiumsetting principles. A comparison of the old age pension is most promising …
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