Republic of Korea, Artist Welfare Act
Legal depository - Country: Korea, South Korea / Year: 2011
Korea adopted the Artist Welfare Act in 2011 with the purpose to legally protect the professional status and rights of artists; to promote the creative activities of artists; and to contribute to artistic development by providing artists with welfare support services (Article 1). Link to the Artist Welfare Act...
Read MoreSocial Outlook for Asia and the Pacific: Poorly Protected
Resources - Author: Ermina Sokou, Patrik Andersson, Thérèse Björk / Year: 2018
The Social Outlook for Asia and the Pacific lays out new arguments and evidence for the critical and urgent need to increase investment in people, particularly in social protection. Developing countries in Asia and the Pacific only spend about 3.7 per cent of GDP on social protection, compared to...
Read MoreHow Technology Affects Jobs
Resources - Year: 2018
Developing Asia is forecast to expand by 6 percent in 2018, and by 5.9 percent in 2019. Excluding Asia’s high-income newly industrialized economies, growth should reach 6.5 percent in 2018 and 6.4 percent in 2019. With oil prices edging up and robust consumer demand continuing, inflation is poised to pick up...
Read MoreUniversal Social Protection Floors: costing estimates and affordability in 57 lower income countries (ESS Working Paper No. 58)
Resources - Author: Andrés Acuña-Ulate, Christina Behrendt, Fabio Durán-Valverde, Isabel Ortiz, Karuna Pal / Year: 2017
This paper presents the results of costing universal social protection floors in 34 lower middle-income, and 23 low-income countries, consisting of: (i) allowances for all children and all orphans; (ii) maternity benefits for all women with newborns; (iii) benefits for all persons with severe disabilities, and (iv) universal old-age...
Read MoreReport of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on her Mission to Mongolia (A /HRC/23/3 6/Add.2)
Resources - Author: Magdalena Sepúlveda / Year: 2013
The Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights conducted an official visit to Mongolia from 3 to 7 December 2012, during which she collected first-hand information on the situation of people living in extreme poverty and on the impact of key policies relating to poverty alleviation and development...
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