In response to the COVID-19 crisis, and the anticipated socio-economic impacts of a hard lockdown, the South African government has leveraged three channels of social protection to protect livelihoods: social insurance, a social assistance programme of grants and localised social relief efforts....

Social security has gained paramount importance in the changed economic scenario. Social security programmes are actively undertaken even in developed nations. The USA social security administration points out that it is much more than retirement program. One in Six Americans (57 million)...

This chapter engages with the tensions and contradictions of EU citizenship by introducing the status as a double-edged sword for European social security. Reviewing both law and practice in the Member States, the chapter argues that EU citizenship continues to create extra layers of protection...

The paper is dedicated to the study of the process of gender analysis of public spending allocated by the Government to the needs of the ordinary citizens. This must be applied in the form of regular payments or allowances, which will not contain discrimination by first of all, gender,...

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...

This publication was jointly developed by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The policy brief builds on UNICEF’s call to action for governments and businesses to...

This paper investigates retirees' optimal purchases of fixed and variable longevity income annuities using their defined contribution (DC) plan assets and given their expected Social Security benefits. As an alternative, we also evaluate using plan assets to boost Social Security benefits...