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    Beyond informal social protection – personal networks of economic support in Namibia

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020
    This paper poses a different lens on informal social protection (ISP). ISP is generally understood as practices of livelihood support among individuals. While studies have explored the social dynamics of such, they rarely do so beyond the conceptual space of informalities and poverty.
  • Blog Post

    Online learning about social protection, for everyone everywhere

    01 Jul 2020: Never has the need for social protection been greater.
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    The politics of social protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

    United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2019
    The notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been mainstreamed within international development policy and practice.
  • Blog Post

    How social protection schemes can provide vital support to older people

    01 Oct 2019: This blog originally appeared on the Impact Initiative website. 
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    ESRC-DFID Research for Policy and Practice: Pensioner poverty

    Impact Initiative, 2019
    Longer lives not only deliver social benefits but are also crucial from an economic perspective. If supported, longevity can yield productivity gains in terms of a larger, experienced labour force, as well as in contributions to society such as caregiving and volunteering.
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    Perceptions and experiences of access to public healthcare by people with disabilities and older people in Uganda

    BioMed Central, 2014
    In the year 2000, a set of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were presented as a way to channel global efforts into the reduction of poverty and the promotion of social development.
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    Pension funds in Chile: bringing the state back in

    Institute of Economic Research, Poland / Instytut Badań Gospodarczych, 2017
    The Chilean reform pioneered a shift in old-age security systems away from public pension schemes on the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) basis towards individual pension schemes on capital basis and found followers in the 1990s, mostly among other Latin American countries and in Central and Eastern Europe. However, nowhere was the change so embracing as in Chile.
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    The education motive for migrant remittances: theory and evidence from India

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2017
    This paper analyses the impact of anticipated old age support, provided by children to parents, on intra-family transfers and education. The authors highlight an education motive for remittances, according to which migrants have an incentive to invest in their siblings’ education via transfers to parents, in order to better share the burden of old age support.
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    Demographic changes in Latin America: the good, the bad and ...

    International Monetary Fund, 2017
    The paper develops a simple, integrated methodology to project public pension cash flows and healthcare spending over the long term. The authors illustrate its features by applying it to the LAC5 (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico), where public spending pressures are expected to increase significantly over 2015-50 due to demographic trends and rising healthcare costs.
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    Fiscal challenges of population aging in Brazil

    International Monetary Fund, 2017
    In recent decades, population has been aging fast in Brazil while old age pensions and healthrelated spending have increased. As the population ages, the spending trend threaten to reach unsustainable levels absent reforms.

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