Europe: Creating jobs – reforms are producing results

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European Commission (29.03.2017) The 2017 Joint Employment Report and its Scoreboard of Key Employment and Social Indicators provide a snapshot of employment and social developments in the EU. This analysis provides a focus on unemployment and Member States' efforts in the labour market to bring it down.

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european union
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Unemployment
Employment policies

Sénégal: Gestion du système des retraites : Le grand chantier de l’Etat en 2017

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Lequotidien (28.03.2017) Améliorer les conditions de vie des retraités du secteur privé comme ceux du public, assurer la viabilité financière des régimes de retraite et les étendre aux travailleurs non pris en compte dans le système : C’est autant de points que l’Etat du Sénégal devra négocier pour que«l’une des réformes majeures de l’année 2017» soit une réussite.

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senegal
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Pensions

Using Income Transfers to Improve the Lives of Families with Children and the Unemployed in Argentina

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worldbank.org (22.03.2017) To help create the preconditions for expanding its social safety net, Argentina increased the effectiveness of its income transfer programs for the unemployed and for families with children.

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argentina
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Family benefits
Unemployment

Norway needs to secure welfare state

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newsinenglish.no (03.04.2017) Few countries are as financially fit to secure social welfare systems as Norway, which has spent the past 20 years stashing away its oil wealth for future generations. Most of that money, though, is meant to preserve pensions, so the government now needs to keep its social welfare state intact as well, amidst debate over how that can best be done.

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norway

US: San Francisco’s universal health care plan eyed as model for California

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The Mercury News (03.04.2017) Maria Consuelo believes she’s alive today because of a groundbreaking program this left-leaning city created a decade ago – one that guarantees health coverage to every one of its 864,000 residents.

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United States
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Health
Health insurance

France: L'Assurance-maladie veut lutter contre le renoncement aux soins

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francetvinfo.fr (29.03.2017) Plus d'un quart des Français auraient déjà renoncé à se soigner pour des raisons financières. L'Assurance-maladie a décidé de s’attaquer à ce problème en lançant un dispositif d’accompagnement personnalisé. 

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france
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Information and communication technology
Service quality