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Le financement de la dépendance, un enjeu majeur pmassetti

lemonde.fr (04.10.2018) Dans un pays à la population vieillissante comme la France, la perte d’autonomie des personnes âgées devient une équation de plus en plus complexe – et chère – à résoudre.

france
Perú: Mujeres informales ganan 3 veces menos que formales dfabbri

larepublica.pe (26.03.2019) Brecha salarial. En un puesto de trabajo formal el salario promedio de una mujer asciende a S/ 2.032; mientras que en el sector informal gana S/ 715 al mes.

gender_and_inequality Employment peru
[Report] Employment and social developments in Europe: Record number of people in employment, but more investment in skills needed dfabbri

Europa (26.03.2019) The spring edition of the Commission's Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) Quarterly Review shows that the number of people in employment and the number of hours worked continues to rise.

labour markets Employment european union
Europe sociale : la fin des galères administratives pour les frontaliers ? - Europe et hop ! dfabbri

Arte (20.03.2019) Bien sûr, le Brexit reste le feuilleton dramatique du moment. Mais l’Union européenne avance aussi pour renforcer les droits aux aides sociales des personnes qui travaillent et vivent dans un autre pays européen que le leur. Dans ce journal, nous irons aussi en Italie, où Matteo Salvini devrait échapper à la justice et nous partirons en Hongrie où Viktor Orban se prépare à sa possible exclusion du Parti populaire européen. Enfin, pourquoi ne pas revenir sur notre vision de l’Union européenne, qui fait l’objet de sondages aux résultats parfois étonnants ?

transnational workers european union
The Globotics Upheaval by Richard Baldwin — white-collar disruption | Financial Times yzhu

When globalisation meshes with robotics, the losers will be the middle classes.

 

digital platforms
España dibuja la ruta para atacar la pobreza en todos los frentes dfabbri

El País (26.03.2019) El Gobierno ha aprobado este viernes la primera estrategia nacional contra la pobreza y la exclusión social en España. El documento abarca el periodo entre los años 2019 y 2023 y esboza la ruta a seguir para combatir la desigualdad en todos sus frentes, desde su manifestación en la infancia hasta la vulnerabilidad energética. En el texto se proponen 85 líneas de actuación como desarrollar un sistema de ingresos mínimos para los hogares, impulsar la universalización de la educación de cero a tres años en familias vulnerables o fomentar el bono social y el bono eléctrico.

economic crisis, poverty spain
Fairer and clearer rules on social benefits for EU mobile workers agreed pmassetti

European Parliament (19.03.2019) New rules aim to ensure access to social security for EU workers who have moved to a different EU country, while fairly distributing obligations among member states. Updated rules for unemployment, family and long-term care benefits. Better cooperation between member states to ensure access to benefits and root out fraud or errors

Family benefits Europe
Philippines: DOLE chief welcomes workplace safety law dfabbri

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.

OSH philippines, the
Enquête OCDE: les riches devraient payer plus pour la protection sociale dfabbri

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.

Financing
Poorest 10 percent of Brazilians to gain most from pension reform: ministry dfabbri

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.

brics, managing reforms, poverty Pensions brazil
UN Advocates for Social Protection and Security for Women dfabbri

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.

extending coverage, gender_and_inequality
How Mobile Money Continues To Boom In Africa rruggia

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.

epayment, mobile technologies Information and communication technology, Extension of coverage Africa
Report: Policy Responses to New Forms of Work pmassetti

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?

digital platforms
[Report] OECD Reviews of Pension Systems: Portugal dfabbri

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.

Pensions portugal
How Google Plans To Use AI To Reinvent The $3 Trillion US Healthcare Industry pmassetti

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.

EU: Highest proportion of government expenditure goes to social protection and health dfabbri

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.

Financing european union
Mèxico: Protección social - una cuestión de derechos dfabbri

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

gender_and_inequality Employment latin america, mexico
UK: I'm taking Friday off—permanently  dfabbri

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.

Employment policies united kingdom
L’Italie lance un revenu de citoyenneté pour les plus démunis dfabbri

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

basic income Social assistance italy
France: Les seniors durement touchés par le chômage de longue durée dfabbri

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%).

labour markets Old-age pensions, Employment france
IBM Developer – IBM Developer rruggia Information and communication technology
Les riches doivent payer plus pour la protection sociale-Enquête OCDE | Reuters gfilhon

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

Social policies & programmes Americas, Asia, Europe
Enquête OCDE: Les riches doivent payer plus pour la protection sociale gfilhon

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

economic crisis Programme & evaluation
Long-Term Care: An Actuarial Perspective on Societal and Personal Challenges delziniy

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.

Health insurance, Actuarial, Long-term care
US: Health insurance - Fewer workers go part-time as ACA coverage worsens dfabbri

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.

Health, Financing United States