Social Protection Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: One Pagers
Toward a system of basic cash transfers for children and older persons: An estimation of efforts, impacts and possibilities in Latin America
Resources - Author: Ernesto Espíndola, Fernando Filgueira / Year: 2015
Summary: This paper seeks to estimate the costs and impacts of expanding the coverage and imrpoving the quality of cash transfers to older people and families with young children in the countries of Latin...
Read MoreSocial protection for children: Key policy trends and statistics
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2015
This policy paper: (i) provides a global overview of the organization of child and family benefits in 183 countries; (ii) presents the negative impacts of fiscal consolidation and adjustment measures in a number of higher income economies; (iii) analyses trends and recent policies, e.g. extension of child and family...
Read MoreEl Salvador: Reduciendo la desigualdad a través de la protección social universal
Resources - Year: 2015
This Universal Social Protection Brief presents the Salvador’s experience on reducing the inequality across the universal social protection. It includes the main lessons learned, information on the universal social protection system, the major breakthrough achievements, the impacts on people’s lives and the way forward. Link to this...
Read MoreFiscal Space for Social Protection: Options to Expand Social Investments in 187 Countries
Resources - Author: Isabel Ortiz, Kalaivani Karunanethy, Matthew Cummins / Year: 2015
It is often argued that social protection is not affordable or that government expenditure cuts are inevitable during adjustment periods. But there are alternatives, even in the poorest countries. This working paper offers an array of options that can be explored to expand fiscal space and generate resources for...
Read MoreStatement on Social Protection Floors: an essential element of the right to social security and of the sustainable development goals
Resources - Year: 2015
The Committee on Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights issued this statement to underline the importance of social protection floors as a means to realize the right to social security. Extracts from the text: “The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Committee), in some of its Concluding...
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