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Protecting who? : optimal social protection responses to shocks with limited information

Hernandez, Carlos Gustavo Ospino; Rigolini, Jamele; … - 2023

The literature on shock-responsive social protection focuses on operational features that improve the speed and reach of the response, but little is known about the optimal design of emergency social protection responses in terms of which programs to use, information about the people affected,...

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Should cash transfers be confined to the poor? : implications for poverty and inequality in Latin America

Acosta, Pablo; Leite, Phillippe G.; Rigolini, Jamele - 2011

choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and … inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver … higher poverty impacts, there are circumstances under which categorical targeting confined to geographical regions (sometimes …

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Safety nets, health crises and natural disasters : lessons from Sierra Leone

Sandford, Judith; Rajput, Sumati; Coll-Black, Sarah; … - 2019

This case study suggests how shock-responsive social protection systems can be the basis of a government-led response to a health crisis and a rapid-onset disaster. It also points to how linking pre-arranged finance to safety nets can help with quick delivery of cash to vulnerable populations...

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Social Protection Floors Volume 3 : Governance and Financing

Ortiz, Isabel; Schmitt, Valérie; De, Loveleen - 2017

This volume describes mechanisms to build social protection floors, such as a national dialogue in Myanmar, reaching rural dwellers in South Africa, worker facilitation centres in India, single window services in Mongolia, legal systems in Brazil and South Africa, labour inspection in China,...

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Evolution and determinants of rent burdens in Germany

Backhaus, Teresa; Gebers, Kathrin; Schröder, Carsten - 2015

The affordability of housing has become a major topic of discussion in Germany among both social scientists and the public at large. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we provide rent-income ratios over more than two decades and show how they change with households’...

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Social Protection Floors Volume 2 : Innovations to Extend Coverage

Ortiz, Isabel; Schmitt, Valérie; De, Loveleen - 2017

This volume presents innovative approaches to expand social protection coverage such as schemes for migrants in China, Bolsa Verde in Brazil, employment injury insurance in Bangladesh and Malaysia, the rural employment guarantee in India, schemes to address climate change in China and...

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Finding alternatives to disability benefit receipt

Livermore, Gina; Wittenburg, David; Neumark, David - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-9

This introduction offers a context for the articles in this thematic series by providing an overview of the programs that provide cash and in-kind supports to people with disabilities in the United States, summarizes the increasing reliance on these programs, and describes the challenges...

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Welfare state adjustment to new social risks in the post-crisis scenario : a review with focus on the social investment perspective

Leoni, Thomas - 2015

The European welfare states have undergone a significant amount of change over the last decades. In light of the unresolved tensions resulting from changed macroeconomic conditions, the emergence of new social risks as well as from the consequences of the Great Recession and its aftershocks,...

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Social Security Spending in Times of Crisis

Prasad, Naren - 2013

This article investigates the link between social security spending and financial crises. In doing so, the article answers two questions: what are the trends in social security spending in the aftermath of a financial crisis, and what factors can possibly explain these changes? The article shows...

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Energy Revolution and Disaster Response in the Face of Climate Change

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2015

Nuclear meltdown in Japan and civil society strife across the Middle East highlight the degree to which resilience is core to international peace and security. This article considers the means by which communities can become increasingly resilient through shared best practices across a range of...

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