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Book Achieving Effective Social Protection for All in Latin America and the Caribbean

Download or read book Achieving Effective Social Protection for All in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Helena Ribe and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study highlights the interaction between social protection programs and labor markets in the Latin America region. It presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challenges caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old age income, for health, for unemployment risks and for anti poverty safety nets. It identifies interaction effects between SP programs and the behavioral responses of workers, firms and social protection providers, which can further undermine efforts to expand coverage, summarizing evidence from recent work across the region. It argues for a re-design of financing to eliminate cross subsidies between members of contributory programs and subsidies that effectively tax income from formal employment. Instead, it advocates well-targeted, tax-funded tapered subsidies to provide incentives to the savings efforts of low income workers, coupled with an effective safety net for the extreme poor who have no capacity to contribute to financing their own social protection arrangements. It also argues for the consolidation of programs and harmonization of benefits packages across different insurers. The book develops an overall conceptual framework and presents in-depth analysis of the main SP sectors of pensions, health, unemployment insurance and safety net transfers.

Book Social Protection in Health Schemes for Mother  Newborn and Child Populations

Download or read book Social Protection in Health Schemes for Mother Newborn and Child Populations written by Pan American Health Organization and published by Pan American Health Org. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the product of a joint initiative between PAHO/WHO, USAID, SIDA (Swedish International Development Agency) and AECI, initiated in 2004/05 to identify options for extending social protection in health to mothers, newborns, and children in Latin American Countries. It relies strongly on concepts and methodologies developed since 2000 by PAHO and SIDA and on the conceptual developments of the ILO (International Labour Organization) - PAHO Joint Initiative on Extension of Social Protection in Health.

Book Social Protection Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

Download or read book Social Protection Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Simone Cecchini and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report pursues three complementary aims. Firstly, it presents the first generation of country case studies on social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, published in the ECLAC Project Documents collection; and it provides justifications for developing such systems. Secondly, it sets out a classificatory approach to social protection system in the region, which aims to provide a comparative basis for interpreting national cases. Lastly, using standardized data and case studies, it identifies major trends in the changes the region is undergoing in terms of social protection.

Book Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean  Welfare Generosity and Electoral Dynamics in Comparative Perspective

Download or read book Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean Welfare Generosity and Electoral Dynamics in Comparative Perspective written by Gabriela Tafoya and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social policies are about extending social rights and providing a safety net that allows citizens to have a minimum standard of living independently of market forces, and have become increasingly important for citizens as countries in the Global South have undertaken market reforms, faced economic crises, and experienced changing labor conditions towards increasingly informal and vulnerable work. This research project joins a growing body of work that investigates how countries in Latin America have differed in the development of adequate systems of social protection, with a focus on social assistance policies and the generosity of welfare entitlements. I argue that combining the traditional social security view of the welfare state with the emerging scholarship on social assistance provides a comprehensive view of welfare. Based on an original data collection and a cluster analysis I propose a new multidimensional typology of social policy regimes. The typology yields four types of social policy regimes: Inclusive, Compensatory, Restrictive and Exclusionary. I show that the first two regime types are associated with greater improvements in social welfare and human development outcomes regardless of their level of social expenditures. I explain the variation across the country cases based on a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of economic, social and political characteristics. I show that alternative configurations of factors produce social policy regimes of varying generosity. Where Left parties have been competitive since the return of democracy and consistently vied for middle class votes we find more generous social policy regimes.

Book Exclusion in Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Download or read book Exclusion in Health in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Pan American Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2004 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides updated data on suicide in the Region of the Americas and is issued every five years, this being the fourth edition. In addition to including analysis similar to previous reports (suicide according to age, sex, as well as methods used), this report includes an expanded set of analysis on risk factors for suicide in the Americas: the analysis of the annual age-standardized gender-specific suicide morality rate trends over time by country and sub-region and to identify points of inflection, and evaluates the association of specific risk factors on country-level suicide mortality rates.

Book Social Panorama of Latin America 2020

Download or read book Social Panorama of Latin America 2020 written by United Nations Publications and published by UN. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines the social impact of an unprecedented crisis. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have spread to all areas of human life, altering the way we interact, crippling economies and bringing about profound changes in societies. The pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated the major structural gaps in the region, and it is clear that the costs of inequality have become unsustainable and that it is necessary to rebuild with equality and sustainability, aiming for the creation of a true welfare state, long overdue in the region.

Book Report

Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Activities of the ILO  1998 99

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : International Labour Organization
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9221115054
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book Activities of the ILO 1998 99 written by and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2000 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Social Protection Report 2017 19

Download or read book World Social Protection Report 2017 19 written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rapport du directeur

Download or read book Rapport du directeur written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Towards Universal Social Protection

Download or read book Towards Universal Social Protection written by Simone Cecchini and published by UN. This book was released on 2015 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the public policies, programmes and regulatory frameworks that are taking a rights-based approach to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a view to achieving universal coverage. Its discussion of the policy tools and programmes pursued in the region aims to provide the reader with technical and programmatic insights for assembling and coordinating public policies within consistent and sustainable social protection systems. The combination of normative orientations and stock of technical knowledge, together with advances regarding the rights-based approach to social protection within a life cycle framework, afford the reader not only a tool box of specific social protection instruments, but also an in-depth examination of related political economy aspects.

Book Beyond Survival

    Book Details:
  • Author : Truman G. Packard
  • Publisher : World Bank Publications
  • Release : 2006-06-20
  • ISBN : 082136572X
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Beyond Survival written by Truman G. Packard and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-06-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Beyond Survival' breaks new ground in the ongoing debate about health finance and financial protection from the costs of health care. The evidence and discussion support the need to consider financial protection, in addition to health status, as a policy objective when setting priorities for health systems. This book reviews the Latin American experience with health reform in the last 20 years and the fundamentals of health system financing, using new evidence to show the magnitude and mechanisms that determine the impoverishing effects of health events (diseases, accidents, and those of the life cycle). It provides options for policy makers on how to protect, and help household to protect themselves,against this impoverishment. The authors use empirical evidence from six case studies commissioned for this report, on Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, and Mexico. This book provides policy makers with a solid conceptual basis for decisions on the contents of mandatory health insurance benefit packages, choices of financing mechanisms, and the roles of public policy in this field. 'Beyond Survival' provides an in-depth analysis of, and organizational alternatives for, risk pooling and health insurance for financial protection. It analyzes the urgent need to extend risk pooling to the informal sector, the challenges for current social insurance arrangements, and options for policy makers to effectively extend risk pooling to the informal sector.

Book The Future of Social Protection What Works for Non standard Workers

Download or read book The Future of Social Protection What Works for Non standard Workers written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social protection systems are often still designed for the archetypical full-time dependent employee. Work patterns deviating from this model – be it self-employment or online "gig work" – can lead to gaps in social protection coverage. Globalisation and digitalisation are likely to exacerbate ...

Book Synthesis of Case Studies of Micro insurance and Other Forms of Extension Social Protection in Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Download or read book Synthesis of Case Studies of Micro insurance and Other Forms of Extension Social Protection in Health in Latin America and the Caribbean written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: