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Publications – Development Implications of Digital Economies (DIODE) Strategic Research Network | The “Development Implications of Digital Economies” (DIODE) strategic network researches the digital economy – that part of economic output derived solely or primarily from digital technologies – and its role in developing countries. |
digital economy, monitoring_sourcing | https://diode.network/publications/ | massetti | ||||||
China: Blink and the elderly get their pensions easier | china | Chinadaily.com.cn (06.08.2017) A pension revolution has been rolled out to help up to 260,000 retired people in Shenzhen. Traditional fingerprint identification has been replaced by "face recognition technology" |
A pension revolution has been rolled out to help up to 260,000 retired people in Shenzhen. Traditional fingerprint identification has been replaced by "face recognition technology". The project has been launched by Alipay, the digital payment app owned by Alibaba Holding Group Ltd |
Pensions, Information and communication technology, Technological transition | biometric | Published_SS_Monitor | http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2017-06/08/content_29671331.htm | massetti | ||
Report of the Working Group on mHealth assessment guidelines - European Connected Health Alliance | The stakeholders' Working Group on mHealth assessment guidelines, which the Commission established in February 2016, recently concluded its works. A report, including a few case studies on mHealth, is now available. While no consensus was reached amongst the represented constituencies on… |
Health, Information and communication technology, Technological transition | mobile technologies | http://echalliance.com/news/352396/ | ruggia | |||||
Bridging the Digital Divide in Health | UN Chronicle | With these words, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan captured the promise of information and communication technologies (ICT) in his opening address to the World Summit on the Information Society in 2003. Building on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), this compelling vision opened… |
Health, Information and communication technology | https://unchronicle.un.org/article/bridging-digital-divide-health | ruggia | ||||||
Costa Rica: OCDE propone reducir cargas sociales para fomentar empleo formal | Nación (19.10.2017) El alto costo que representa para los empleadores el pago de las cargas sociales de sus trabajadores es uno de los factores que explican la alta informalidad en el empleo de Costa Rica, de acuerdo con la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE). Por… |
Méndez/Archivo (Diana Méndez) El alto costo que representa para los empleadores el pago de las cargas sociales de sus trabajadores es uno de los factores que explican la alta informalidad en el empleo de Costa Rica, de acuerdo con la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económ |
Financing | Published_SS_Monitor | http://www.nacion.com/nacional/trabajo/OCDE-critica-obstaculos-Costa-Rica_0_166… | fabbri | ||||
France: La hausse des dépenses sociales difficilement soutenable | france | Le Monde (19.10.2017) Les dépenses sociales des départements ont progressé de 24,5 % entre 2010 et 2016. Elles sont la première cause de la dégradation de leur situation financière, selon un rapport de la Cour des comptes ntre 2010 et 2016, les dépenses sociales des départements (RSA… |
Entre 2010 et 2016, les dépenses sociales des départements (RSA, aide sociale à l’enfance, personnes âgées et personnes handicapées) ont crû de 24,5 %. Elles atteignent désormais 32 milliards d’euros et représentent plus de la moitié (55 %) de leurs dépenses de fonctionnement (65 |
Financing, Health | sustainability | Published_SS_Monitor | http://mobile.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2017/10/18/une-hausse-des-depenses-s… | fabbri | ||
"Catastrophic medical insurance" (Major-illness insurance) in China | china | The Lancet (14.10.2017) The article briefly introduces the major-illness medical insurance in China, which has covered 1.01 billion people (of which 60% from rural areas) since its implementation in 2013. The new scheme is mainly funded (with an annual fee of 15 Yuan to 30 Yuan per person)… |
Health, Health insurance | managing reforms | Published_SS_Monitor | http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32603-X/fullt… | massetti | |||
Preventing Ageing Unequally | This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations. Taking a life-course perspective the report shows how inequalities in education, health, employment and earnings compound,… |
Population ageing, Inequalities | http://www.oecd.org/employment/preventing-ageing-unequally-9789264279087-en.htm | massetti | ||||||
Population ageing and rising inequality will hit younger generations hard | oecd.org (18.10.2017) Younger generations will face greater risks of inequality in old age than current retirees and for generations born since the 1960s, their experience of old age will change dramatically. Moreover, with family sizes falling, higher inequality over working lives and… |
Population ageing, Inequalities | Published_SS_Monitor | http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/population-ageing-and-rising-inequality-will-hit-y… | massetti | |||||
Signature de l’arrangement administratif de sécurité sociale avec le Maroc | morocco, luxembourg | gouvernement.lu (18.10.2017) Le ministre de la Sécurité sociale, Romain Schneider, et le ministre du Travail et de l'Insertion professionnelle du Maroc, Mohamed Yatim, ont signé le 17 octobre 2017, au Luxembourg, l'accord administratif pour l'application de la convention bilatérale de… |
Le ministre de la Sécurité sociale, Romain Schneider, et le ministre du Travail et de l'Insertion professionnelle du Maroc, Mohamed Yatim, ont signé le 17 octobre 2017, au Luxembourg, l'accord administratif pour l'application de la convention bilatérale de sécurité sociale entre le Grand-Duché de |
Governance and administration, Bilateral agreements | international_agreement | Published_SS_Monitor | http://www.gouvernement.lu/7467179/17-schneiderr-maroc-securite | fabbri | ||
[Report] OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2017 | OECD (11.10.2017) The biennial OECD Digital Economy Outlook examines and documents evolutions and emerging opportunities and challenges in the digital economy. It highlights how OECD countries and partner economies are taking advantage of information and communication technologies… |
With its potential to galvanise economies, digital transformation is now high on the global agenda. OECD countries have set their objectives at the 2016 Cancún Ministerial on the Digital Economy. To maximise the benefits of digital transformation for innovation, growth and social prosperity |
Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/oecd-digital-economy-outloo… | fabbri | |||||
CIO interview: Peder Sjölander, Swedish Pensions Agency | sweden | Sweden’s public sector is increasingly focused on digital services, which place new demands of agility and speed on its IT. For Peder Sjölander, CIO at the Swedish Pensions Agency, which manages the country’s national pensions, the answer is to bring development and operations closer together… |
Information and communication technology | http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450428105/CIO-interview-Peder-Sjoelander-Swe… | massetti | |||||
US: NIOSH uses mobile medical screening trucks to test coal miners for black lung | United States | The Exponent Telegram (17.10.2017) Preventing and understanding respiratory diseases, especially those faced by coal miners, is one of the core missions of the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, Respiratory Health facility in Morgantown. A part of the Centers for Disease… |
reventing and understanding respiratory diseases, especially those faced by coal miners, is one of the core missions of the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, Respiratory Health facility in Morgantown. A part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NIOSH h |
Prevention of occupational risks, Service quality | prevention | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.theet.com/news/free/niosh-uses-mobile-medical-screening-trucks-to-t… | fabbri | ||
Le saviez-vous? | france | Occupational accidents and diseases | http://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/7482a4eb-e051-4c7f-9238-32f129b5707b-large… | -filhon | ||||||
Dépenses sociales : la France ne va pas dans le mur | Alternatives Economiques | france | Démonstration que les comptes sociaux français sont solides. |
Financing | sustainability | https://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/depenses-sociales-france-ne-va-mur/0008… | -filhon | ||||
France: Assurance chômage: les négociations se poursuivent à Matignon | france | Le Figaro (17.10.2017) Après Emmanuel Macron, c'est au tour du premier ministre Édouard Philippede recevoir ce mardi les partenaires sociaux pour discuter de la réforme de l'assurance chômage, de l'apprentissage et de la formation. |
Après avoir rencontré Emmanuel Macron à l'Elysée, les syndicats ont rendez-vous ce mardi avec Édouard Philippe. Le premier ministre les recevra tout au long de la jour |
Unemployment | managing reforms | Published_SS_Monitor | http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/2017/10/17/20002-20171017ARTFIG00044-assuran… | fabbri | ||
Suisse: Les seniors s’imposent comme créateurs d’entreprise | switzerland | Le Temps (16.10.2017) Ces dix prochaines années, les personnes qui choisiront de devenirentrepreneurs à un stade plus avancé de leur vie seront de plus en plusnombreuses. Aux Etats-Unis, le quart des start-up sont créées par les 55 à 64 ans, analyse Jean-François Bunlon, de HSBC |
Alors que les avancées technologiques devraient donner à la prochaine décennie un visage nouveau, les années 2020 subiront également de profonds changements sociaux puisqu’un cinquième de la population des pays industrialisés aura dépassé l’âge de la retraite. Ce que l’on appelle aujourd’hui l’âg |
Employment | Published_SS_Monitor | https://www.letemps.ch/economie/2017/10/16/seniors-simposent-createurs-dentrepr… | fabbri | |||
One foot on the ground, one foot in the air: Ethiopia’s delivery on an ambitious development agenda | Overseas Development Institute (ODI) | ethiopia | Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (sept 2015) Despite starting out with one of the lowest levels of human development in the world in the 1990s, Ethiopia is one of the few African countries on track to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals. |
This case study looks at the progress achieved in material well-being, education and employment, where Ethiopia has shown particularly strong performance over the past 10 to 15 years. However this transformation is far from complete and a number of challenges remain, not least the depth and bread |
Extension of coverage, Social assistance | https://www.odi.org/publications/9884-ethiopia-progress-development-mdgs-millen… | ruggia | ||||
Ethiopia: Progress Towards Ethiopian Universal Health Coverage - allAfrica.com | ethiopia | AllAfrica (06.11.2015) The World Health Organization defines universal health coverage (UHC) as a situation in which all people who need health services receive them, without incurring financial hardship. UHC is currently perceived as a crucial component of sustainable development and listed as… |
The World Health Organization defines universal health coverage (UHC) as a situation in which all people who need health services receive them, without incurring financial hardship. UHC is currently perceived as a crucial component of sustainable development and listed as one of the possible goal |
Health, Health insurance, Extension of coverage | http://allafrica.com/stories/201511061187.html | ruggia | ||||
Ethiopia’s Investments in Health, Education and Social Protection Yield Positive Results | ethiopia | worldbank.org (06.07.2016) Ethiopia’s investments in health, education, social protection, and infrastructure have had a positive impact on economic development and promoting shared prosperity in the country, says 2015 Ethiopia Public Expenditure Review, a new World Bank Group report released… |
The report, which evaluated the effectiveness of public finances, states that the country is moving in the right direction, despite rising economic pressure. The positive steps taken by the Government of Ethiopia over the past decade to reorient expenditure from recurrent to capital, the decentra |
Financing, Health, Social assistance | http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2016/07/06/ethiopias-investments… | ruggia | ||||
How can social protection build resilience? Insights from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda | Overseas Development Institute (ODI) | ethiopia, kenya, uganda | Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (nov 2016) In this BRACED working paper we present a synthesis of findings from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda on the role of social protection programmes in… |
Extension of coverage, Social assistance | https://www.odi.org/publications/10647-how-can-social-protection-build-resilien… | ruggia | |||||
TV : « Un monde sans travail » | Le Monde (11.10.2017) De la Bretagne à Pittsburgh en passant par Bruxelles, San Francisco, le Tarn ou la Suisse, cet instructif documentaire à travers la planète, coécrit par Noël Mamère et Philippe Borrel, a de quoi inquiéter des millions de travailleurs. On savait les moins… |
L’exemple du secteur de la logistique, qui emploie 700 000 personnes en France, est éclairant. Les robots ont envahi les entrepôts. Comment faire cohabiter ces machines et les hommes ? Il est bon de rappeler qu’un salarié français sur cinq est un ouvrier. Quel avenir peut-on imagin |
Employment | labour markets | Published_SS_Monitor | http://mobile.lemonde.fr/televisions-radio/article/2017/10/11/tv-un-monde-sans-… | fabbri | |||
Ethiopia Social Protection: Access of the Poor and Vulnerable to Basic Social Services | socialprotection.org | ethiopia | (United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF). Ethiopia launched its National Social Protection Policy (NSPP) in 2014. The policy introduces the concept of a ‘sustainable social protection system’. Various strategies and programmes are underway to support the implementation of… |
Extension of coverage, Social assistance | policy reponse | http://socialprotection.org/discover/publications/ethiopia-social-protection-ac… | ruggia | ||||
Travail détaché : le Parlement européen sur le point de se prononcer | european union | Le Monde (16.10.2017) Résultat de dix-huit mois de tractations serrées, le texte, qui doit être soumis au vote lundi, ne reprend pas tous les points réclamés par Paris. |
Priorité européenne du président de la République, Emmanuel Macron, la révision de la directive sur le travail détaché entre dans une phase décisive à Bruxelles. Lundi 16 octobre, la commission « emploi » du Parlement européen devrait prendre position sur un texte hautement symboli |
Migration | migration | Published_SS_Monitor | http://lemonde.fr/economie/article/2017/10/12/travail-detache-le-parlement-euro… | fabbri | ||
Government approves amendments to Estonia's parental leave, benefits system | estonia | News ERR (29.09.2017) The Estonian government at its Wednesday meeting approved proposals for amendments to the law which would extend paternal benefits as well as make the country's parental leave and benefits system in general more flexible. |
Family benefits, Parental leave | family_gender_society | Published_SS_Monitor | http://news.err.ee/632922/government-approves-amendments-to-estonia-s-parental-… | monitor |