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  Proxy means tests for targeting subsidies scheme in Iran

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013

  Iran’s most recent Five Year Economic Development Plan proposes a subsidy reform to eliminate subsidies, especially those on fuel and energy as well as on food and to replace them with targeted social assistance.
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  Duration to coverage: dynamics of access to social security in the Egyptian labor market in the 1998-2012 period

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014

  This paper investigates the dynamics of having access to social insurance (SI) coverage on the Egyptian labor market among wage workers throughout 1998 to 2012.
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  Social protection global policy trends 2010-2015: from fiscal consolidation to expanding social protection: Key to crisis recovery, inclusive development and social justice

  International Labour Organization, 2014

  While social protection played a strong role in the expansionary response immediately after the onset of the global crisis, many governments embarked on fiscal consolidation and premature contraction of expenditures from 2010 onwards, despite an urgent need of public support among vulnerable populations.
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  Even it up: time to end extreme inequality

  Oxfam, 2014

  Using new research and examples, this report shows the scale of the problem of extreme economic inequality, and reveals the multiple dangers it poses to people everywhere. It identifies the two powerful driving forces that have led to the rapid rise in inequality in so many countries: market fundamentalism and the capture of politics by elites.
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  Reducing old age and economic vulnerabilities: why Uganda should improve its pension system

  World Bank, 2014

  Despite 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.
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  World social protection report 2014/15: building economic recovery, inclusive development and social justice

  International Labour Organization, 2014

  Social 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:
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  Social networks and micro finance

  Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2012

  This 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.
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  Pension design with a large informal labor market: evidence from Chile

  Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2014

  Over 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.
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  From poverty to empowerment: India’s imperative for jobs, growth, and effective basic services

  McKinsey Global Institute, 2014

  More than two decades have passed since India embarked on major economic reforms—and although official poverty rates have declined sharply since then, millions of Indians continue to face significant deprivation in terms of quality of life and access to basic services.
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  The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean: conditional transfer programmes and the labour market

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014

  Labour markets in Latin America and the Caribbean lost momentum in 2013 compared with the sustained improvements seen over the past 10 years.  Weaker formal and wage employment creation did not provoke broad expansion of the informal sector, as has occurred in the past, thanks to the number of jobs created over the past 10 years, which have pushed up incomes and reduced poverty.

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