Search Results - "social insurance"

Social protection and gender: policy, practice and research by Hidrobo, Melissa, Peterman, Amber, Kumar, Neha, Lambon-Quayefio, Monica, Roy, Shalini, Gilligan, Daniel O., Paz, Florencia

“…We provide an overview of the policy discourse and research on social protection and gender in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on social assistance, social care, and social insurance. Taking a ‘review of reviews’ approach, we aggregate findings from rigorous evaluations on women's health, economic, empowerment, and violence impacts. …”
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Social exclusion and labour market outcomes: evidence from eastern Europe and central Asia by Bangwayo-Skeete, P.F., Zikhali, Precious

“…Purpose - The paper seeks to examine the impact of social exclusion on individuals' propensity to be employed and how, if employed, social exclusion affects individuals' perceived job insecurity and the likelihood of being covered by social insurance in their jobs. Design/methodology/approach - Using the United Nations Development Program/United Nations Children Fund 2009 survey data from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the paper employs comprehensive econometric methods that overcome challenges posed by endogeneity of social exclusion in labour market outcomes, self-selection into employment, and the interdependency between perceptions of job security and social insurance coverage. …”
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Urban women: balancing work and childcare by Engle, Patrice L.

“…Innovative strategies could include support for parental childcare cooperatives, social insurance to enable mothers or fathers to stay home after the birth of a child, childcare linked to schools, and even the involvement of elders in childcare...." -- from Text…”
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Access to irrigation and the escape from poverty: Evidence from Northern Mali by Dillon, Andrew

“…The paper tests two alternative hypotheses about the distribution of agricultural gains: (1) the gains in agricultural production induced by irrigation yield higher household savings, or (2) intra-village transfers from irrigators to non-irrigators contribute to informal social insurance. The paper provides evidence of both saving and sharing within villages as complimentary strategies for consuming gains in agricultural production. …”
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Linking safety nets, social protection, and poverty reduction: directions for Africa by Adato, Michelle, Ahmed, Akhter, Lund, Francie

“…“Social protection” is a newer term that incorporates safety net programs but also includes a role for renewed state involvement, emphasizes a longer-term developmental approach, includes social assistance and social insurance, and is often advocated as a right rather than a reactive form of relief. …”
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Managing agricultural risk at the country level: the case of Index-Based Livestock Insurance in Mongolia by Mahul, O., Skees, J.

“…This program involves a combination of self-insurance by herders, market-based insurance, and social insurance. Herders retain small losses, larger losses are transferred to the private insurance industry, and extreme or catastrophic losses are transferred to the government using a public safety net program. …”
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Turning Scaling for Impact (S4I): Livestock productivity enhancement through improved forage technologies and a government partnership approach by Regassa, Bekele, Gudissa, Mulugeta, Ayele, Kalkidan, Mwendia, Solomon, Notenbaert, An

“…Livestock is an integral part of Ethiopian Agriculture contributing to food and nutrition, income, draft power, manure, transport, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and social insurance. The sector serves as the nerve system for the country’s economic and social development through providing energy, resources and means to the mixed farm operation that is the backbone of the country’s economy. …”
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Rural income diversification in Ethiopia: Patterns, trends, and welfare impacts by Abate, Gashaw T., Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Regassa, Mekdim D., Minot, Nicholas

“…Further analyses reveal that income diversification is positively associated with credit access, membership in social insurance, ownership of assets and wealth, and population density. …”
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Using weather index insurance to improve drought response for famine prevention by Chantarat, S., Barrett, Christopher B., Mude, Andrew G., Turvey, C.G.

“…The problem originates with the difficulty poor households face in insuring covariate risk. While informal social insurance arrangements and flexible credit contracts often provide the poor with significant insurance against household-specific, idiosyncratic risk, when entire communities or social networks confront the same biophysical shock, their capacity to buffer members' welfare may be insufficient to prevent severe and widespread human suffering. …”
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Needs assessment Report: Development of Grazing & Feeding Advisory System; Water-availability prediction tools; Water Management Strategy Guide by Muñoz, Ángel G., Demissie, Teferi

“…Pastoral and agropastoral livestock systems are central to livelihoods across East Africa, providing milk and meat, generating cash income, serving as a store of wealth and social insurance, and underpinning local cultural and economic systems. …”
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Rural income diversification in Ethiopia: Patterns, trends, and welfare impacts by Abate, Gashaw T., Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Regassa, Mekdim D., Minot, Nicholas

“…The econometrics results show that diversification is positively associated with credit access, membership in social insurance, ownership of mobile phone, relative measure of household wealth, and population density. …”
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Statistics on Public Expenditures for Economic Development by Economic Classes (SPEED-EC) by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Total expense (expense) which is the sum of all economic categories listed below Compensation of employees (comp_emp): Compensation of employees is the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable to an individual in an employer-employee relationship in return for work performed by the latter during the reporting period… Compensation of employees comprises wages and salaries and employers’ social contributions payable by employers on behalf of employees to social insurance schemes (IMF 2014, pages 115 and 116). …”
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Föräldraledighet för lantbrukare : finns det en problematik? by Ekman, Louise, Humble, Susanna