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Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. Income stabilisation and related social policy objectives hinge on the extent to which social protection is accessible for those requiring support....
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Social protection systems use a range of entitlement criteria. First-tier support typically requires contributions or past employment in many countries, while safety net benefits are granted on the basis of need. In a context of volatile and uncertain labour markets, careful and continuous...
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existing regional minimum income schemes, in terms of their coverage and adequacy, is of the essence. We assess the budgetary … coverage rates and adequacy levels. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD together with microdata from the European … combinations of coverage and adequacy levels using national and regional poverty lines as references. Our results suggest that …
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programmes, including key information such as institutional set-up, benefits provided, coverage, targeting mechanisms used to …
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existing regional minimum income schemes, in terms of their coverage and adequacy, is of the essence. We assess the budgetary … coverage rates and adequacy levels. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD together with microdata from the European … combinations of coverage and adequacy levels using national and regional poverty lines as references. Our results suggest that …
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This paper assesses the performance of government spending on social protection programs in reducing poverty and inequality in Lesotho, applying benefit incidence and microsimulation methods to 2017-2018 household survey data. The paper investigates the distributional effects of actual spending...
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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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