Social protection
- Demographic pressures and the sustainability of social security in Emerging Europe and Central Asia
- 2012
- How serious are the long-term effects of population ageing in the emerging economies of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia? This paper investigates long-term effects of population ageing in a number of eme...
- Older Women In India - A Note by Agewell Foundation
- Agewell Foundation, 2012
- Briefing paper looking at major concerns of Indian women, including destitution, alienation and isolation, financial and social insecurity and medical issues.
- Development Pathways
- Consultancy of international development practitioners who specialise in the fields of social protection and social development.
- Introducing social pension programs for informal sector workers − an economic distorter but welfare generator
- J. Jung; C. Tran / Department of Economics, Towson University, 2011
- Individuals in developing countries face a shortage of formal risk-sharing instruments and therefore rely largely on informal cash transfers from family members for insurance purposes. This paper studies the effects of introducing a s...
- The consequences of population aging - governments must plan for a looming labour shortage
- D.K. Foot / Institute for Research on Public Policy, Canada, 2008
- The continued participation of older people in the economic life is a key factor to their own well-being as well as that of their nations on the whole. Covering Canada specifically, this paper looks at possible and appropriate policie...
- Supporting older people and recognising their rights to decent work and social protection in the post-2015 era
- S. Beales; G.T. Long / HelpAge International, 2012
- Older people account for an increasing proportion of the world’s population today, and this number continues to grow. This paper highlights that national policies and programmes should be shaped to support older people and recog...
- Transforming research and policy
- Centre for Social Protection, 2012
- This report provides a concise picture of the Centre for Social Protection’s approach, key areas of work and accomplishments over the last six years. It aims to inform current and potential partners and stakeholders about who CSP...
- Shocks and Social Protection in the Horn of Africa: Analysis from the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia
- C Béné / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
- Using panel data from the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program, this paper explores the degree to which this social protection programme has been successful in protecting its beneficiaries against the various shocks that have affec...
- Social Protection: Accelerating the MDGs with Equity
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2010
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals will need accelerated interventions in key areas. This Brief illustrates how social protection programmes can help to accelerate progress to the MDGs by facilitating access to essential servi...
- Poverty Target Programs for The Elderly In India with Special Reference to National Old Age Pension Scheme, 1995
- Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2012
- Formal old age care is a supplement to informal old age care and not its substitute, and it is increasingly being felt that the two forms of care should be woven together. This paper looks into various aspects of the old age pension d...
- Demographic pressures and the sustainability of social security in Emerging Europe and Central Asia
- 2012
- How serious are the long-term effects of population ageing in the emerging economies of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia? This paper investigates long-term effects of population ageing in a number of eme...
- Older Women In India - A Note by Agewell Foundation
- Agewell Foundation, 2012
- Briefing paper looking at major concerns of Indian women, including destitution, alienation and isolation, financial and social insecurity and medical issues.
- Introducing social pension programs for informal sector workers − an economic distorter but welfare generator
- J. Jung; C. Tran / Department of Economics, Towson University, 2011
- Individuals in developing countries face a shortage of formal risk-sharing instruments and therefore rely largely on informal cash transfers from family members for insurance purposes. This paper studies the effects of introducing a s...
- The consequences of population aging - governments must plan for a looming labour shortage
- D.K. Foot / Institute for Research on Public Policy, Canada, 2008
- The continued participation of older people in the economic life is a key factor to their own well-being as well as that of their nations on the whole. Covering Canada specifically, this paper looks at possible and appropriate policie...
- Supporting older people and recognising their rights to decent work and social protection in the post-2015 era
- S. Beales; G.T. Long / HelpAge International, 2012
- Older people account for an increasing proportion of the world’s population today, and this number continues to grow. This paper highlights that national policies and programmes should be shaped to support older people and recog...
- Transforming research and policy
- Centre for Social Protection, 2012
- This report provides a concise picture of the Centre for Social Protection’s approach, key areas of work and accomplishments over the last six years. It aims to inform current and potential partners and stakeholders about who CSP...
- Shocks and Social Protection in the Horn of Africa: Analysis from the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia
- C Béné / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
- Using panel data from the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program, this paper explores the degree to which this social protection programme has been successful in protecting its beneficiaries against the various shocks that have affec...
- Social Protection: Accelerating the MDGs with Equity
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2010
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals will need accelerated interventions in key areas. This Brief illustrates how social protection programmes can help to accelerate progress to the MDGs by facilitating access to essential servi...
- Poverty Target Programs for The Elderly In India with Special Reference to National Old Age Pension Scheme, 1995
- Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2012
- Formal old age care is a supplement to informal old age care and not its substitute, and it is increasingly being felt that the two forms of care should be woven together. This paper looks into various aspects of the old age pension d...
- Swaziland old age grant impact assessment
- HelpAge International, 2010
- Cash transfers are increasingly seen as a popular form of social protection, representing a solution to reducing absolute poverty and food insecurity for vulnerable groups. The Swaziland Old Age Grant (OAG) was introduced in 2005 as a...
- Development Pathways
- Consultancy of international development practitioners who specialise in the fields of social protection and social development.
- Centre for Social Protection (CSP)
- The Centre for Social Protection (CSP) at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK, supports a network of partners working to mainstream social protection in development policy and encourage social protection systems and instruments that are comprehensive, long-term, sustainable and pro-poor. It produces research on: Conceptual approaches De...
- Global Extension of Social Security
- GESS is a global knowledge sharing platform on the extension of social security and aims to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, capture and document experiences, identify knowledge gaps, create new knowledge and promote innovation. To achieve this goal, GESS relies on the contributions of its users and the dialogue and exchange between them. This platform, developed and r...
- Retirement Security Project, Brookings
- The Retirement Security Project is dedicated to promoting solutions to improve the retirement income prospects of millions of American workers. Nearly half of all workers do not have access to an employer-sponsored retirement savings plan, those that do often fail to participate. To address these trends, RSP proposes research-based policies aimed at helping middle- and low-income Americans prepare...
- PensionReforms
- Online resource centre covering pensions issues. Site contains collections of papers searchable by country, topic, author(s), institution producing the publication, year published. Site is run by Retirement Policy and Research Centre, School of Business at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Retirement Policy and Research Centre (RPRC)
- New Zealand's ageing population poses many economic challenges. The RPRC is an academically focused centre specialising in the economic issues of demographic change. The RPRC's sphere of interest includes public provision of retirement income (New Zealand superannuation) and the accumulation and decumulation phases of retirement saving. International debate is facilitated through pensionreforms, a...
- Population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS
- The population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS project was funded by the ESRC and ran from August 2005 until November 2006. Hosted at University of Sheffield. Website includes briefing notes: Project Outline Briefing Note 1 Methodology Briefing Note 1a Elderly Headed Households Profile Briefing Note 2...
- Kwa Wazee
- Organisation working with the elderly to promote pension programmes in Tanzania. Kwa Wazee, which started in November 2003 with a very small number of beneficiaries, has since aradually extended to over 300 grandmothers, who were caring for over 400 orphans by the end of 2005. Feedback from the elderly beneficiaries, as well as by observers in their neighbourhoods, shows that even the m...
- BIG coalition namibia
- Coalition for Basic income grant in Namibia
- The Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy (CASASP)
- Eradicating poverty and building citizenship in South Africa
