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    Pension reform: Securing Morocco’s elderly

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), large groups of the population are not covered by social security programs. Access to health, education and a pension are essential to the well-being of the individual and contributes to the reduction of poverty.
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    The welfare state of Mauritius: a critical appraisal

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    The subject of the welfare state remains a thorny subject. There is no unanimous agreement on the extent to which the state should go in alleviating the negative effects of the market on segmen ts of the population.
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    The prospects and politics of social protection reform in Zambia

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    In Zambia, the general election in 2011 produced a major political change when the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), which had been in office for two decades, was defeated by the Patriotic Front (PF). The PF promised Zambians ‘pro-poor change’ as well as ‘more jobs, lower taxes, and more money in the pocket’.
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    Where next for social protection?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The rapid ascendancy of social protection up the development policy agenda in the past ten to 15 years raises questions about whether its current prominence will be sustained, or whether it will turn out to be just another development fad that declines and ultimately disappears.
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    A review of social insurance in the Philipppines

    Philippine Journal of Development, 2009
    This paper aims to review and assess the protection afforded by the Social Security System (SSS) and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), two of the three agencies tasked with administering social insurance in the country.
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    Impact Evaluation of the Non-contributory Social Pension Program 70 y más

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    Implemented throughout Mexico, the 70 y más (70 and above) programme was aimed at improving the living conditions of adults aged 70 and older. The programme was centred on two components:
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    Financing better health care for all

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009
    Poor people’s access to good health care is limited because they cannot afford it and often live far from quality services. There is evidence that poor people will pay to use health services if the quality is good. Cash transfers have also been highly successful in encouraging women to use health care, and contracting-out can help to improve coverage.
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    The role of targeting in service delivery to vulnerable populations – the FANRPAN Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) - a synthesis of three country reports

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2009
    The objective of the Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) pilot study, conducted in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, was to further develop and test the HVI as a statistical tool for quantifying household vulnerability resulting from shocks such as HIV and AIDS. Key outputs from the study were a refined method for constructing the HVI and a computerised tool for its computation.
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    Formal and informal social protection in Iraq

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    This paper studies formal and informal insurance in Iraq, using empirical data from a household survey. In this respect, the document examines the types of risks that Iraqi households face, demonstrating the coping mechanisms they use to deal with them.
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    Predicted poverty impacts of expanding the Community Work Program me in South Africa: an analysis of income poverty and inequality

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    The Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), which guarantees low-skilled work to poor, unemployed individuals and in the process contributes to the creation of productive community assets and services.

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