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France: Le nombre de travailleurs détachés a augmenté de 25% en 2015 monitor

lefigaro.fr (30.05.2016) L'an passé, 286.025 travailleurs détachés ont été déclarés à l'administration française, selon des données provisoires transmises à la Commission nationale de lutte contre le travail illégal (CNLTI) qui seront présentées ce lundi à Matignon.

migration, published Employment, Migration france
Universal health coverage 'prevented cancer death increase' in economic crisis monitor

Medical News Today (26.05.2016) In the first analysis of its kind, researchers find that unemployment and reduced public sector healthcare spend in the 2008-2010 global economic crisis is linked to an increase in cancer deaths. They also find universal healthcare coverage appears to protect against this effect.

economic crisis, published Health, Health insurance
New German immigrant integration law prioritises language skills monitor

EurActiv (30.05.2016) New job opportunities, more integration courses and new rules on housing: Germany’s new integration law is on its way towards final approval – but is not without its critics and shortcomings. EurActiv Germany reports.

megatrends, migration, published Migration
Buhari Unveils Nigeria’s ‘Most Ambitious’ Ever Social Protection Programme monitor

Information Nigeria (30.05.2016) President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday official unveiled his administration’s social protection programme which he called “the most ambitious” in Nigeria’s history.

published nigeria
[Report] Does Social Spending Hold the Key to Better Health? monitor

Rand.org (24.05.2016) Many governments are cutting spending on social welfare programmes, such as unemployment benefits. The UK is scaling back disability benefits and public expenditure more broadly. To look at these questions, a new report by RAND Europe used three decades of data on social expenditure and health outcomes, across 34 countries of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development.

published Health
India: Good news! EPFO finally gets govt nod to raise insurance cover of subscribers to Rs 6 lakh monitor

Zee News (25.05.2016) New Delhi: Government has finally enforced the decision of retirement fund body EPFO to almost double the maximum sum assured under its insurance scheme to Rs 6 lakh for its 4 crore subscribers.

published Pensions india
[Opinion] France: L'assurance santé, un futur à risque pour les acteurs historiques monitor

Les Echos (26.05.2016) Il n'est pas improbable qu'une croissance exponentielle des coûts de santé amène à une prise en compte individualisée de certains risques. Associé à l'émergence du numérique, cela va durablement bouleverser le paysage actuel : de nouveaux acteurs vont apparaître et d'autres, historiques, perdre en importance, s'ils ne s'adaptent pas.

published Health france
Congo: Lutte contre la pauvreté : Vers la mise en place d’un système de protection sociale globale et intégré au Congo monitor

adiac-congo.com (26.05.2016) L’atelier national sur la protection sociale organisé du 23 au 24 mai à Kintélé, banlieue de Brazzaville par le ministère des Affaires sociales, de l’action humanitaire et de la solidarité en partenariat avec la Banque mondiale, sur le thème « Construisons une nouvelle protection sociale plus globale et mieux intégrée. » s’est fixé comme objectif l’élaboration d’un programme concerté sur la protection sociale au Congo.

extending coverage, poverty, published Extension of coverage congo
US: The gig economy needs a new bargain for workers monitor

Financial Times (23.05.2016) America’s middle class is losing ground. Wage stagnation, economic insecurity and rising inequality have become the defining issues of the presidential campaign. Yet as politicians search for a response, they must also grapple with the changing nature of employment. The “fight for $15”, the nationwide campaign for a big rise in the federal minimum wage, is of little relevance to the growing numbers working without the traditional relationship of employer and employee in the so-called gig economy.

published United States
UK: 92,400 Scots now working beyond retirement age monitor

The Scotsman (26.05.2016) The number of people working beyond retirement age in Scotland has almost doubled since 2004, new Scottish Government statistics show.

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[Opinion] The IMF has not lived up to its own hype on social protection monitor

The Guardian (25.05.2016) The International Monetary Fund claims to support health, education and welfare programmes. Yet our research shows enforcing fiscal austerity remains its real concern

extending coverage, poverty, published Extension of coverage
France: La « Sécu » veut revoir l’aide à l’installation des médecins dans les déserts médicaux monitor

Le Monde (25.05.2016) L’aide financière – baptisée « option démographique » – actuellement allouée aux médecins pour les attirer dans les déserts médicaux « n’est pas suffisamment attractive ». Tel est le constat dressé par l’Assurance-maladie dans un document, qu’elle doit présenter mercredi 25 mai aux syndicats de praticiens, lors d’une nouvelle séance de négociations pour la future convention – et que l’Agence France-Presse a pu consulter. Pour remédier à la situation, l’organisme souhaite recentrer l’aide versée à ceux qui s’installent dans les zones sous-dotées à travers une somme forfaitaire de 50 000 euros.

published Health, Governance and administration france
Suisse: Médecine ambulatoire - Tarifs médicaux, un bras de fer à 4 milliards monitor

TDG (23.05.2016) La nouvelle grille doit, demande Berne, réduire les rentes de situation et ne pas coûter plus cher aux assurés.

published Health, Financing switzerland
Suisse: Assurances sociales - Les nouveaux pères doivent avoir au moins un mois de congé monitor

TDG (25.05.2016) Après l’échec du congé paternité au parlement, les syndicats lancent leur initiative populaire.

published Family benefits switzerland
Maroc: Retraites : Le déficit de la CMR passera à 6 milliards de dirhams en 2016 monitor

Telquel.ma (23.06.2016) Le retard accusé dans la réforme des retraites accentue chaque année le déficit de la Caisse marocaine de retraite. Il atteindra fin 2016 six milliards de dirhams selon le directeur de l’institution.

published Pensions morocco
WHO: Uncovering health inequalities: A path towards leaving no one behind monitor

WHO (May 2016) Having a skilled health professional during childbirth can save the life of a woman and her child. But, in many parts of the world and within many countries, the presence of a health worker during childbirth is often a luxury. If a woman is poor, she is even more likely to deliver without support, putting herself and child at risk.

poverty, published Health
WHO Director Advocates Strong Health Systems, Warns Against Profit-Oriented Mechanisms monitor

ip-watch (23.05.2016) The World Health Assembly opened today with World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan repeating that this year has a record number of agenda items and over 3,000 participants. She slapped at profit-seeking mechanisms leading to “slow-motion disasters,” which put economic interests above concerns about well-being. In particular, she underlined the lack of research and development for antimicrobial treatments and the rise of chronic non-communicable diseases.

published Health
Nigeria: NSITF seeks expansion of social protection mandate monitor

Daily Trust (22.05.2016) The acting managing director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Ismail Agaka, has said that NSITF Act is presently going through the legislative process of amendment at the National Assembly to give clout to execute other aspects of social protection programmes. He said the trust fund has, in this regard, begun aggressive training of its staff in readiness for the expansion of its mandate.

managing reforms, published Governance and administration, Social policies & programmes nigeria
Tunisia Moves to Modernize its Social Protection and Labor Policies monitor

World Bank/News (20.05.2016) In 2011, Tunisia set itself on a new trajectory, peacefully ousting a 30-year dictatorship. In the five years that have followed, Tunisians have passed a new constitution and held democratic elections. Tunisia’s also managed to maintain stability, despite security threats at home and unrest next door in Libya. But, though it’s moved forward politically, social inequity inside it persists, with little progress on the sort of economic reforms needed to address the underlying roots of the country’s democratic uprising.

managing reforms, published Governance and administration, Social policies & programmes tunisia
India: Health insurance for alternative treatments on the anvil monitor

thehindubusinessline.com (22.05.2016) Health insurance for alternative treatments like Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (Ayush) is set to expand with the Centre taking steps to get insurers to develop packages for traditional treatments.

published Health india
India: Public-private deal rejuvenates healthcare in Rajasthan – at a cost monitor

The Guardian(23.05.2016) The reluctance of doctors to work in remote rural areas has set back healthcare in India’s villages, but a public-private partnership in Rajasthan aims to fix that

rural world, published Health india
France: Guadeloupe - Emploi : sale temps pour les seniors et les femmes monitor

France Antilles (22.05.2016) Emploi : sale temps pour les seniors et les femmes Mardi 17 mai 2016 Emploi : sale temps pour les seniors et les femmes Le chômage a très légèrement reculé en 2015. Mais les demandeurs d'emplois seniors, notamment les femmes, ne profitent pas de l'embellie, bien au contraire.

megatrends, published Unemployment france
[Opinion] Suisse: Relever l'âge de la retraite à 70 ans est «sensé» monitor

Tribune de Genève (08.05.2016) Pour rétablir l'équilibre de son financement, le patron de Swiss Life Patrick Frost préconise une nette baisse du taux de conversion et une hausse significative de l'âge de départ à la retraite.

published switzerland
Congo: « Il faut créer une entité autonome pour réguler l’assurance maladie », estime Christian Maniongui monitor

adiac-congo.com (18.05.2016) Le système de sécurité sociale actuellement en vigueur au Congo prend en charge uniquement les agents de l’Etat et les travailleurs du secteur privé. C’est ainsi que le gouvernement a pris l’engagement d’étendre la protection sociale dans ses aspects de base dans l’ensemble de la population. Dans une interview exclusive aux Dépêches de Brazzaville, l’Administrateur de MAD Invest, Christian Maniongui, revient sur les résultats des études menées par son cabinet sur l’assurance maladie et présentés récemment aux autorités congolaises.

extending coverage, published Health, Health insurance, Extension of coverage congo
ILO: Poverty rising in Europe, amid global dearth of solid jobs monitor

EurActiv.com (19.05.2016) A growing number of Europeans are living in “relative poverty”, the UN labour agency said Wednesday (18 May), warning that a lack of quality jobs worldwide was threatening to undo decades of progress in poverty reduction.

poverty, published