Manila Bulletin News (25.03.2019) Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III welcomed the signing into law of the Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSHS) bill, which he said is expected to minimize work-related deaths and accidents.

RFI (19.03.2019) Alors que la justice fiscale est l'une des revendications principales des « gilets jaunes » en France, l'enquête de l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE) publiée mardi 19 mars indique qu'une large majorité de ressortissants des pays développés pense que les riches devraient payer plus pour la protection sociale.

Reuters (21.03.2019) Reform of Brazil’s overloaded pension system would reduce income inequality in Latin America’s largest nation, according to an Economy Ministry study published on Thursday, with the country’s poorest set to enjoy the biggest gains.

Prensa Latina (23.03.2019) United Nations, March 23 (Prensa Latina) The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is advocating this Saturday providing them with social protection guarantees, mobility, security and access to economic opportunities.

The tie-up of Kenya's mobile sensation M-Pesa with PayPal and Western Union, coupled with the joint venture between two of the largest cellular operators – MTN and Orange – for a mobile wallet that operates across networks have capped a year that has seen significant developments in Africa's already blooming mobile payments market.

M-Pesa has 28.5-million users in East Africa who will now be able to transact with remittance giant Western Union's 500,000 global agents in over 200 countries. M-Pesa has revolutionised mobile transacting, first in Kenya where it was launched by Safaricom in 2007, then into the rest of East Africa and now into West Africa.

For the three months to June 2018, M-Pesa processed 581-million transactions for its 23-million Kenyan subscribers, worth $14,6-billion or $162-million a day, according to the Communications Authority of Kenya. "The power of financial technology to expand access to and use of accounts is demonstrated most persuasively in Sub-Saharan Africa," the World Bank’s Global Findex Database wrote in its financial inclusion survey which found 21% of adults in the region now have a mobile money account. This is "nearly twice the share in 2014 and easily the highest of any region in the world".

Last year the GSM Association said over half of all mobile money services in the world are in Sub-Saharan Africa, which remains the fastest-growing mobile market in the world. The region is expected to have 500-million cellphone subscribers by 2020.

OECD (21.03.2019) This report provides a snapshot of the policy actions being taken by OECD, EU and G20 countries in response to growing diversity in forms of employment, with the aim of encouraging peer learning where countries are facing similar issues. These changes are driving policy makers worldwide to review how policies in different areas – labour market, skills development, social protection – can best respond. How can policymakers balance the flexibility offered by a diversity of employment contracts, on the one hand, with protection for workers and businesses, on the other?

OECD (20.03.2019) This review provides policy recommendations on how to improve the Portuguese pension system, building on the OECD’s best practices in pension design. It details the Portuguese pension system and identifies its strengths and weaknesses based on cross-country comparisons.

cbinsights.com (01.03.2019) Google is betting that the future of healthcare is going to be structured data and AI. The company is applying AI to disease detection, new data infrastructure, and potentially insurance. In this report we explore Google's many healthcare initiatives and areas of potential future expansion.

finchannel (20.03.2019) In 2017, total government expenditure in the European Union (EU) amounted to 45.8% of gross domestic product (GDP). This share has steadily decreased since 2012, when it stood at 48.9% of GDP.

El Economista (20.03.2019) En la última década, los derechos económicos de las mujeres, como el derecho al trabajo y a la protección social, han atraído la atención internacional

socialeurope (20.03.2019) It’s time to share evenly the benefits of automation. That’s why trade unions are calling for a four-day week.

EurActiv (07.03.2019) Les Italiens peuvent demander depuis le 6 mars le revenu de citoyenneté, mesure phare du Mouvement 5 étoile pour les chômeurs et contre l’exclusion sociale

EurActiv (19.03.2019) En dépit d’un taux d’activité record, les personnes âgées sont en proportion bien plus souvent en situation de chômage de longue durée que le reste de la population (60,2% contre 41,8%).

compte rendu de Reuter sur le rapport de l'OCDE en question

Dans les pays de l'OCDE, une plus grande progressivité des prélèvements et une plus grande redistribution est très attendue par l'opinion.

As populations age over the next several decades, the demand for long-term care (LTC) services (assisting individuals with their activities of daily life) will increase dramatically and is likely to reach crisis levels in many countries. Societies will have to confront this emerging need because historical methods for providing and financing LTC may not be adequate to address future LTC needs.
The primary objective of this paper is to provide information concerning some of the key issues associated with LTC, including: (1) the future use of LTC services, (2) alternative benefit designs and their resulting incentives, (3) a range of approaches used around the world to provide LTC services and (4) methods of financing LTC services and mitigating costs by the individual, community, private sector and governments. This presentation is particularly important, as there are significant differences throughout the world in how LTC is treated.

USA Today (18.03.2019) Many Americans who would like to dial back and work part time have been discouraged from doing so because of sharp premium increases in the individual health insurance market the past few years, experts say.

The aging population and the epidemic of chronic diseases requires an accompanying fi nance reform of long-term care
that will become increasingly dominant. Many countries have faced this situation and have set up a separate public
funding for such care on the basis of a universal insurance covering both home care and institutions. Canada and Quebec
must adopt such autonomy insurance and create a separate fund fi nanced partly by a more judicious use of current
budgets and tax credits, and also by a signifi cant investment in home care. An autonomy support benefi t could be
allocated in kind to fund public services and by contract to pay for services delivered by private, voluntary, and social
economy agencies. This benefi t would be established following a standardized assessment of functional autonomy
achieved by the case manager who will manage the services and control their quality.

Le vieillissement de la population et la pandémie de maladies chroniques
qui l’accompagne obligent à prioriser le financement des soins à long terme
qui deviendront de plus en plus importants. De nombreux pays ayant fait
face à cette situation ont mis sur pied un financement public distinct via une
assurance universelle couvrant les soins à domicile et en institution comme
c’est le cas en France avec l’Allocation personnalisée d’autonomie (APA).
À la lumière des comparaisons internationales, nous identifions certaines
lacunes de l’APA, notamment : la fragmentation des services, une évaluation
qui n’utilise pas un outil suffisamment détaillé et validé, le rôle limité des
équipes d’évaluation, l’insuffisance du plan d’aide, un ticket modérateur
qui limite l’accessibilité et augmente le reste à charge, les problèmes liés à
l’utilisation de l’emploi direct et la diversité importante des sources et des
canaux de financement. L’APA mériterait d’être corrigée afin de rendre cette
mesure de protection sociale plus performante et d’assurer sa pérennité dans
un contexte financier difficile.

La misE En oeuvrE des politiques sociales destinées explicitement à « traiter » la problématique du vieillissement remonte, en Europe, à la fin du xixe siècle et au début du xxe siècle. directement liée à la naissance et à l’affirmation des états-nations, elle répondait à deux grandes préoccupations:

– démographique, tout d’abord : les états-nations européens avaient besoin, pour s’affirmer, d’une démographie dynamique et le vieillissement
de certains d’entre eux, notamment la france, a suscité la mise en place de politiques familiales visant à encourager la natalité, dont les effets se manifestent encore de nos jours ;

– sociaux, ensuite : la nécessité d’un encadrement des dispositifs spontanés de solidarité mis en place dans le monde ouvrier – sociétés de secours mutuels, caisses de solidarité – a amené les états-nations à légiférer. L’allemagne de Bismarck fut pionnière et les systèmes « bismarckiens » de protection sociale diffusèrent dans un certain nombre de pays européens, dont la france. ils furent ensuite concurrencés par les systèmes « beveridgiens », apparus en 1942 en Grande-Bretagne. L’Europe est désormais partagée entre les deux types de système, avec une tendance forte à l’hybridation.
 

World Economic Forum (14.03.2019) For generations healthcare has been episodic – someone gets sick or breaks a bone, they see a doctor, and then they might not see another one until the next time they get sick or injured. Now, as emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence open up new possibilities for the healthcare industry in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, policymakers and practitioners are developing new ways to deliver continuous healthcare for better outcomes.

Development Pathways (March 2019) This paper is the result of a global review of the effectiveness of different methods of selecting social protection recipients, both targeted and universal schemes. The work considered the effectiveness of 38 programmes across 23 low- and middle-income countries, including means-tested schemes and those using proxy means testing, community-based targeting, self-targeted and pension testing.

biomedcentral.com (July 2018) Although a growing body of literature has emerged to study medical tourism and address the policy challenges it creates for national health care systems, the comparative scholarship on the topic remains too limited in scope.

 The Astana Times (18.03.2019) As of January, the National Social Insurance Fund has accumulated 1.4 trillion tenge (US$3.7 billion) and is reaching 6.126 million citizens, or 70.3 percent of the country’s working population, said Vice Minister of Labour and Social Protection Svetlana Zhakupova at the recent discussion by the Mazhilis (lower house of Parliament) of the mandatory social insurance bill.