Adaptive Social Protection Agenda Lessons from Responses to COVID-19 Shock: The State of Social Protection Report 2025 Background Paper #2

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worldbank.org (09.04.2025) The paper examines the social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic across 76 emerging and developing economies (EDEs) to identify lessons on how to make these systems more resilient against risks, shocks, and crises at the individual, household, or national level. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered significant expansions in social protection systems across EDEs, with responses varying based on countries’ existing infrastructure and income levels.
Global challenges
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Shocks & extreme events

Country profiles on the rights and wellbeing of older persons: a how-to-guide from the Arab region

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HelpAge International (22.03.2025) A practical guide to developing and using country profiles on the rights and wellbeing of older persons in the Arab region, based on HelpAge and UNFPA’s experience across 18 countries.
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arabic countries
Global challenges
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Old-age pensions
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English Version of "Long-term Care Tech Portal" Newly Launched, Introducing Latest Care and Age Tech in Japan

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finance.yahoo.com (24.03.2025) The long-term care robot portal site management office released the English version of the Long-term Care Tech Portal (https://robotcare.jp/en/home/index?type=pw), a portal site providing information on state-of-the-art care and age tech in Japan. The portal site provides a wide range of information on long-term care technology with the aim of promoting its development and utilization in nursing care sites. The office has launched an English site for overseas visitors in order to introduce Japan's latest technologies.
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japan
Global challenges
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Long-term care
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The Care Dividend: Why and How Countries Should Invest in Long-Term Care

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eurohealthobservatory.who.int (03.04.2025) Long-term care often falls by the wayside in national policy dialogues. In some countries cultural norms compel families to look after older people at home. Some pundits may look at rising health care costs and argue that the public sector cannot shoulder more care responsibilities by expanding access to long-term care. Public long-term care systems are best placed to meet the needs of the present and the future than families.
Global challenges
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Long-term care
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Undeclared care work in the EU: Policy approaches to a complex socioeconomic challenge

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eurofound.europa.eu (25.03.2025) The scale of undeclared care work (paid care work that is lawful but not declared to public authorities) in the EU is considerable. Recent estimates suggest that 6.8 million undeclared workers provide care or household services across the EU, with 2.1 million specifically in the care sector. Undeclared care workers are predominantly women and often are migrants.
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Europe
Global challenges
Topics
Difficult-to-cover groups
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Dynamic Social Registries for Adaptive Social Protection in the Sahel : Four Recommendations

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worldbank.org (01.03.2025) This policy note consolidates the highlights of a study funded by the Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Program (SASPP), exploring the role and operationalization of dynamic social registries in low-income and shock-prone contexts, including in the Sahel.
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Africa
Topics
Information and communication technology
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Making Progress on Parental Benefits in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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worldbank.org (24.03.2025) The World Bank estimates that closing the gender gap in employment would increase long-run gross domestic product (GDP) per capita by 20 percent (Pennings 2022). Realizing this achievement, however, depends not only on removing gender barriers to employment but also and most emphatically on improving the quality of women’s employment. Women’s labor force participation has been stagnant since 1990, at around 53 percent for women compared to 80 percent for men, with the largest gaps in lower-middle-income countries (World Bank 2023).
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Family benefits
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Leaving no parent behind: Lessons from family friendly policies in Nepal

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worldbank.org (07.03.2025) Designing family-friendly policies in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) requires being cognizant of the diverse labor markets, administrative challenges, fiscal constraints, and prevailing social norms. A World Bank study in Nepal evaluated parental leave and related benefits to identify implementation gaps and opportunities to expand coverage to parents, especially those in the informal sector.
Regions / Country
nepal
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Family benefits
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Counterfactual impact evaluations of active labour market policies

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oecd.org (20.03.2025) Public employment services and active labour market policies (ALMPs) have an important role to play in providing adaptable and responsive support to connect people with jobs. This policy report synthesises findings from a joint OECD-EC project on using linked administrative data to evaluate the impact of ALMPs. The report brings insights across a range of dimensions. It shows the power that evaluation brings to policymaking to design effective and efficient ALMPs. It demonstrates the necessity for high-quality and rich data, linked across registers.
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Employment policies
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