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Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...

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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world

Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2018

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In particular, public pensions, that smooth incomes over the...

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Social protection

Munro, Lauchlan T. - In: Handbook on development policy and management, (pp. 182-192). 2002

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Integration of administrative records for social protection policies : contributions from the Brazilian experience

Bartholo, Letícia; Mostafa, Joana; Osorio, Rafael Guerreiro - 2018

Integrating information for the purpose of articulating social protection policies is hard work. It requires a combination of political will, capacity for institutional cooperation, software development and direct communication channels with citizens. Because of this complexity, countries that...

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Climate-responsive Social Protection

Kuriakose, Anne T.; Heltberg, Rasmus; Wiseman, William - 2013

In the years ahead, development efforts aiming at reducing vulnerability will increasingly have to factor in climate change, and social protection is no exception. This paper sets out the case for climate?responsive social protection and proposes a framework with principles, design features, and...

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Social Protection is Centuries-Old!

De Coninck, John - 2010

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Social protection

OECD - 20XX

Social protection is a measure of the extent to which countries assume responsibility for supporting the standard of living of disadvantaged or vulnerable groups. Benefits may be targeted at low-income households, the elderly, disabled, sick, unemployed, or young persons. Social spending...

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Social protection

OECD - 20XX

This dataset introduces the different health care coverage systems such as the government/social health insurance and private health insurance. The statistics are expressed in percentage of the population covered or number of persons.

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The Politics of Social Protection in Ghana : Policy Reform in a Competitive African Democracy (2000-2014)

Grebe, Eduard - 2017

The Kufuor (New Patriotic Party) administration of 2000-2008 implemented substantial reforms of the contributory social insurance system (including the introduction of a national health insurance scheme and a new 'three tier' pensions system), and introduced a range of social assistance schemes...

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Poverty Dynamics and Programme Graduation from Social Protection. A Transitional Model for Mexico's Oportunidades Programme

Villa, Juan Miguel - 2014

Social protection programmes have emerged as one of the most important anti-poverty policy strategies in developing … countries. Their effects on poverty and well-being have been widely studied. Yet, there is limited knowledge on how a transfer … programme should respond to the dynamics of poverty. This paper contributes to the existing literature on social protection by …

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