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Building an inclusive social protection system in South Africa

Fall, Falilou; Steenkamp, Andre - 2020

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 the old-age population has decent income. Only 40% of...

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The politics of promoting social protection in Zambia

Pruce, Kate; Hickey, Sam - 2016

This paper examines the rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia, and demonstrates that this has two alternative drivers: shifting dynamics within Zambia's political settlement and the promotional efforts of a transnational policy coalition. We compare the cases of social cash transfers...

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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion save lives?

Borgschulte, Mark; Vogler, Jacob - 2019

We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals, a 3.6 percent decrease. This estimate is largely...

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Making growth more inclusive in Thailand

Fleischer, Lara; Bogiatzis, Adam; Asada, Hidekatsu; … - 2018

The People pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development focuses on quality of life in all its dimensions, and emphasises the international community’s commitment to ensuring all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity, equality and good health. Thailand’s path from a...

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Does access to free health insurance crowd-out private transfers? : evidence from Mexico’s Seguro Popular

Orraca-Romano, Pedro P. - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 24 (2015), pp. 1-34

This study examines whether Seguro Popular, a free-of-charge publicly provided health insurance program for otherwise uninsured households, crowded-out private transfers in Mexico. Using data from the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey, the effects of Seguro Popular are identified...

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Analysing the aid effectiveness on the living standard : a check-up on Southeast Asian countries

I., Zareena Begum; Nehra, Arpita - In: Journal of urban management 5 (2016) 1, pp. 23-31

The present research work aims to analyse the effect that the disaggregated developmental aid has had on the health status and the standard of living in the urban sector after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established. Infant Mortality and Improved sanitation facilities are taken...

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The demand for health insurance in a poor economy : evidence from Burkina Faso

Schleicher, Michael; Klonner, Stefan; Sauerborn, Rainer; … - 2018

We investigate the properties of health insurance demand in Burkina Faso, where we offered poor households a voluntary health insurance product at half the usual price. The targeting procedure we implemented delivers a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, which identifies the price elasticity...

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Decentralized versus statistical targeting of anti-poverty programs : evidence from Burkina Faso

Schleicher, Michael; Souares-Coutant, Aurélia; Pacere, … - 2016

-based targeting with several statistical procedures when the program's purpose is to target consumption-poor households. We find that … the community-based assessment targets a similar share of consumption-poor households as the best-performing statistical … procedures which are not calibrated with household-level consumption data. Community-based targeting performs relatively better …

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Dynamic properties of poverty targeting

Hillebrecht, Michael; Klonner, Stefan; Pacere, Noraogo A. - 2020

procedure, and community-based targeting (CBT), a participatory method, to identify consumption-poor households. Motivated by …-looking: implicit weights put on PMT variables that predict future rather than current consumption, accounting for additional household …

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The Trade-Offs of Welfare Policies in Labor Markets with Informal Jobs: The Case of the "Seguro Popular" Program in Mexico

Bosch, Mariano; Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M. - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6 (2014) 4, pp. 71-99

In 2002, the Mexican government began an effort to improve health access to the 50 million uninsured in Mexico, a program known as Seguro Popular (SP). The SP offered virtually free health insurance to informal workers, altering the incentives to operate in the formal economy. We find that the...

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