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Rethinking Social Protection Using a Gender Lens
Overseas Development Institute, 2010The role of gender in social protection is complex, shaping the types of risks tackled, how they are tackled, public buy-in and programme implementation practices. However, the extent to which gender has been integrated into social protection approaches has been uneven at best.DocumentReducing old age and economic vulnerabilities: why Uganda should improve its pension system
World Bank, 2014Despite Uganda’s young population, there is an urgent need for pension reform. Limited social protection is leaving vulnerable elderly members of society exposed to poverty, a situation that is exacerbated by the fact that few workers save for their own retirement.DocumentIran’s subsidy reform from promise to disappointment
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014In December 2010, Iran implemented an ambitious subsidy reform program for energy; however, three years later, the program has stalled and energy prices are once again well below their global levels. The current paper reveals that two factors explain the failure of the program to continue after its successful implementation.DocumentPoverty and gender inequality in asset ownership among households in Southern Nigeria
2014This study concerns gender inequality in the ownership of certain assets among households in Southern Nigeria. With the aid of a structured questionnaire, data were obtained from 60 households using the multistage sampling technique. Results of the analysis are presented using histograms.DocumentSocial protection for the elderly as a development strategy: a case study of Kenya’s old persons cash transfer programme
2010Kenya has made progressive investments in social protection for the ageing, providing lessons and existing opportunities for similar programmes. In Kenya, there has been a paradigm shift from universal social protection schemes targeted at formal employees to inclusive schemes including both formal and informal sectors, corporations and individuals.DocumentWorld social protection report 2014/15: building economic recovery, inclusive development and social justice
International Labour Organization, 2014Social protection policies play a critical role in realising the human right to social security for all, reducing poverty and inequality, and supporting inclusive growth – by boosting human capital and productivity, supporting domestic demand and facilitating structural transformation of national economies. This report:DocumentSocial protection, poverty and the post-2015 agenda
World Bank, 2013Defining social protection as a collection of programs that address risk, vulnerability, inequality and poverty through a system of transfers in cash or in kind, this paper argues that social protection needs to be on the post-2015 agenda as a key element of the discourse.DocumentSocial networks and micro finance
Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2012This summary reviews a number of studies that deal with the issues of social networks and finance, the role of informal institutions within networks and econometrics of studying social networks.DocumentPromoting the rights of older people in the community in Mae Hong Son province
HelpAge International, 2014Thailand has a national plan on ageing and national bodies aiming to promote wellbeing of older people, including promoting their rights. Still, it appears that gaining information on and accessing the rights and entitlements under the law is quite limited in scope.DocumentPension design with a large informal labor market: evidence from Chile
Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2014Over the last three decades, many governments have considered or introduced fully-funded, privately-managed, individual accounts-based pension programmes. Chile was the earliest and most influential example of such a reform in 1980, and the only one for which more than 29 years of data are available.Pages