Ley 12.812
Lei 13.257
Legal depository - Country: Brazil / Year: 2016
Em seu artigo 38, a lei 13.257 modifica os artigos 1º, 3º, 4º e 5º da lei nº 11.770, de 9 de setembro de 2008, que institui o Programa Empresa Cidadã. Todos os empregados de empresas parte do Programa terão direito a 15 dias de licença-paternidade, além dos 5...
Read MoreExtending Social Protection by Anchoring Rights in Law
Resources - Year: 2016
The adoption of the 1988 constitution marked a landmark in the history of the Brazilian social security system by introducing a universal social security model grounded in citizenship rights. The Constitution sets out the State’s responsibility in organizing and legislating social security. This should be done according to principles...
Read MoreInvesting in the Care Economy: Simulating employment effects by gender in countries in emerging economies
Resources - Author: Diane Perrons, Jerome De Henau, Susan Himmelweit / Year: 2017
Increasing public investment in emerging economies would boost employment and contribute to economic growth and, depending on the form and location of the investment, contribute to enhancing human development and realizing some of the Sustainable Development Goals. This report makes a case for public investment in social as well...
Read MoreSocial Protection: towards gender equality
Resources - Year: 2017
Social protection has become prominent in the global development agenda over recent decades, with social protection systems now being included as a target under Sustainable Development Goal 1: “End poverty in all its forms everywhere”. In developing countries, these policies have played an important role in alleviating extreme poverty,...
Read MoreDilemas de la protección social frente a la desaceleración económica
Resources - Author: Ariela Goldschmit, Fabio Bertranou, Luis Casanova, Oscar Cetrángolo, Pablo Casalí / Year: 2016
La siguiente publicación presenta una reflexión respecto de los desafíos de los sistemas de protección social en el Cono Sur frente a las nuevas condiciones tanto del contexto macroeconómico como del mercado laboral. El análisis incluye la situación en Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay y...
Read MorePublication – Compendium Social Protection Floors: Volume 3 – Governance and financing
Resources - Year: 2016
The volumes on Social Protection Floors present best practices and experiences from countries that are useful for South-South learning, for practitioners and to provide the basis for more informed policy-making. Volume 3 describes mechanisms to build social protection floors, such as a national dialogue in Myanmar, reaching rural dwellers...
Read MorePublication – Compendium Social Protection Floors: Volume 2 – Innovations to extend coverage
Resources - Year: 2016
The volumes on Social Protection Floors present best practices and experiences from countries that are useful for South-South learning, for practitioners and to provide the basis for more informed policy-making. Volume 2 presents innovative approaches to cover more people under social protection schemes such as Bolsa Verde in Brazil,...
Read MoreSocial Protection for Sustainable Development: Dialogues between Africa and Brazil
Resources - Author: Alessandra Casazza, Almudena Fernandez, Armando Barrientos, Awa Wade Sow, Bianca Suyama, Ibrahima Dia, Iván Guillermo González de Alba, Jorge Abrahão de Castro, Laura Hildebrandt, Laura Jungman, Layla Saad, Leisa Perch, Luciana Jaccoud, Luis Rodriguez, Maria Luiza Amaral Rizzotti, Mariana Santarelli, Mariana Stirbu, Renata Nowak-Garmer, Rômulo Paes-Sousa, Safiétou Ba Diop / Year: 2016
Making sustainable development a reality by 2030 will require a substantial transformation to be made to development practices. The significant increase in the number and quality of social protection systems throughout the Global South brings renewed hope and enthusiasm. In Africa, 48 countries have established flagship programmes, with more...
Read MoreMultidimensional progress: well-being beyond income
Resources - Author: George Gray Molina / Year: 2016
The report focuses on the increasingly pressing challenges facing the region. In times of global economic fragility, eradicating poverty and reducing inequalities in all their dimensions require a twofold strategy: protecting the achievements of the last decade to prevent millions from falling back into poverty while promoting comprehensive policies...
Read MoreSocial Protection in Brazil: Impacts on poverty, inequality and growth
Resources - Author: Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Milo Vandemoortele, Rebecca Holmes / Year: 2011
Brazil is one of the richest countries in the world, with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of $10,427 in 2009. Growth rates increased from 1.9% to 5.1% per year from 1998 to 2008. Yet the country also has one of the highest rates of inequality in the...
Read MoreBOLSA unFAMILIAr
Resources - Author: Karishma Huda, Stephen Kidd / Year: 2013
This short paper aims to answer this question by assessing the evidence on Brazil’s social security system. It will examine the beneficiary numbers, budgets, levels of benefits and, importantly, impacts and coverage of the main social security schemes in Brazil. This paper will reveal that the real hero driving...
Read MoreChallenges and Perspectives for Rural Women in Brazil under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (One Pager 319)
Resources - Author: Amanda Barroso Lima, Beatriz Abreu dos Santos, Isadora Cardoso Vasconcelos / Year: 2016
This brief examines challenges facing rural women in Brazil under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development. Esse “brief” examina os desafios a serem enfrentados pelas mulheres de regiões rurais do Brasil no que diz respeito à Agenda 2030 para o Desenvolvimento...
Read MoreSocial Security Provisions in the Constitution of Brazil
Legal depository - Country: Brazil / Year: 1988
Artículo 1 La República Federal del Brasil, formada por la unión indisoluble de los Estados y Municipios y del Distrito Federal, se constituye en Estado Democrático de Derecho y tiene como fundamentos: (…) 4. los valores sociales del trabajo y la libre iniciativa; (…) Artículo 3 Art. 3. Constituyen...
Read MoreCash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and empowerment of women: A comparative analysis
Resources - Author: Elaine Fultz, John Francis / Year: 2013
This publication summarizes existing knowledge on the impact of cash transfers on women. These transfers are of relevance for gender equality, first, because as a group, women spend fewer years in paid employment than men, receive lower wages, and live longer. All three differences increase women’s risks of poverty....
Read MoreFiscal Space and the Extension of Social Protection: Lessons learnt from developing countries (ESS Working Paper No. 33)
Resources - Author: Fabio Durán-Valverde, José Francisco Pacheco / Year: 2012
This paper focuses on the analysis of experience in creating fiscal space for the extension of social protection. It presents the results of studies conducted in eight developing countries (Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Costa Rica, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Thailand) that successfully extended social protection including floors for national...
Read MoreGood practices on Single Window Services: Research on existing Single Window Services around the world (India, Chile, Brazil, South Africa, Pakistan) and key lessons to be learned for Cambodia
Resources - Author: Diane Taieb, Valérie Schmitt / Year: 2012
The aim of this research is to identify good and bad practices of Single Window Services around the world, by looking at the experiences of countries where these services are already in place. Link to Word...
Read MoreDuty to prevent discrimination by private health providers on grounds of gender, race or economic status in Brazil
Legal depository - Country: Brazil / Body: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / Year: 2011
The communication represented the first instance of maternal mortality to be addressed by the international system of human rights, and examined accountability of health provision, in relation to compounding forms of discrimination. The victim was a poor woman of Afro-Brazilian ethnicity. The ethnic, socio-economic and gender factors were widely...
Read MoreSocial security coverage extension in the BRICS: A comparative study on the extension of coverage in Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa
Resources - Author: ISSA / Year: 2013
This comparative study of the International Social Security Association ISSA presents the diverse approaches of the BRICS for the extension of social security coverage. It shows how responses take into account the local realities and environment in each country, with a focus on innovations that measurabley extend and improve...
Read MoreThe State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014: Strengthening the enabling environment to improve food security and nutrition
Resources - Author: FAO, IFAD, WFP / Year: 2014
This report presents the most recent estimates of undernourishment and shows the progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets. Findings show that progress in hunger reduction at the global level and in many countries has continued but that substantial additional effort is needed in...
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