[Opinion] Nigeria: Micro-Pension Plan, Inclusive Social Protection

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thisdaylive. (01.04.2019) Thursday President Muhammadu Buhari launched the micro pension plan (MPP) which automatically extends retirement benefits to millions of self-employed workers in the informal sector.

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nigeria
Global challenges
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Pensions
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Thailand: Will ‘welfare state’ promises be honoured?

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Bangkok Post (25.03.2019)  Following the general election yesterday, elected politicians will be closely watched how and whether they will keep the many promises made during their poll campaigns. One is their pledge to make Thailand a “welfare state”.

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thailand
Global challenges
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Social policies & programmes
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High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution

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Although health outcomes have improved in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the past several decades, a new reality is at hand. Changing health needs, growing public expectations, and ambitious new health goals are raising the bar for health systems to produce better health outcomes and greater social value. But staying on current trajectory will not suffice to meet these demands.

Global challenges
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Health
Health promotion
Medical care
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Delivering quality health services: a global imperative for universal health coverage

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This document – Delivering quality health services: a global imperative for universal health coverage – describes the essential role of quality in the delivery of health care services. As nations commit to achieving universal health coverage by 2030, there is a growing acknowledgement that optimal health care cannot be delivered by simply ensuring coexistence of infrastructure, medical supplies and health care providers.

Global challenges
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Health
Health promotion
Medical care

2019 Global health care outlook

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deloitte (March 2019) This 2019 outlook reviews the current state of the global health care sector and explores trends and issues impacting health care providers, governments, payers, patients, and other stakeholders. It also outlines suggestions for them as they seek to redefine the health care ecosystem and looks at examples from the market.

Global challenges
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Health
Health promotion
Medical care
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Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

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“Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” is based on more data than ever before and includes 622 new data sources, for a total of 8,259 data sources. The 2017 study produced and used a new set of population estimates, which has led to substantial changes in mortality estimates in many countries. The analysis has been extended in time by two decades to start in 1950, and the statistical methods have been improved.

Global challenges
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Health
Health promotion
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The EU social pillar: An answer to the challenge of the social protection of platform workers? - Paul Schoukens, Alberto Barrio, Saskia Montebovi, 2018

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With atypical work gaining popularity, platform work seems to combine all the elements which, by deviating significantly from the standard employment relationship, challenge social security systems. After an overview of the features of the standard employment relationship and the different ways in which non-standard forms of work diverge from them, the article focuses on the nature of platform work. It then analyses how platform work is regulated in five European social security systems (i.e.

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Europe
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
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