Europa (17.02.2'16) Promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship is an important way of creating new jobs and enhancing the labour market opportunities for the unemployed and other disadvantaged groups.
Institute of Development Studies (15.02.2016) Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region face a number of challenges, including ongoing civil unrest with associated displacement of people and disruption of services, stagnant economic growth and high unemployment, food insecurity and rising malnutrition, exacerbated by import dependence and natural disasters. Safety nets and broader social protection instruments offer partial solutions to some of these challenges.
Yen.com.gh (23.02.2016) Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has signed a 31.6 million Euro agreement with the European Union to provide social protection for employment. The employment programme also has macroeconomic significance, by being in line with the policy priorities of both the Ministries of Gender and Employment.
US News (23.02.2016) Obamacare has helped many, but system's holes limit gains, Harvard analysts say. Health inequality is part of American life, so deeply entangled with other social problems — disparities in income, education, housing, race, gender, and even geography — that analysts have trouble saying which factors are cause and which are effect.
Ilo (23.02.2016) Of the 23 million children under the age of 18 in South Africa, about 60 per cent lives in poverty. The Child Support Grant (CSG), introduced in 1998, initially covered only 10 per cent of poor children. Incremental changes in the eligibility criteria and successful awareness-raising campaigns increased the coverage to 11.7 million poor children in 2015, or 85 per cent of the target group. The grant has been shown to have a positive impact on the recipient children and their families.
Los Andes (09.02.2016) Desde hace 20 años rige el sistema de capitalización, administrado por las AFP. En promedio, las jubilaciones representan el 45% de los salarios. Algunos ganan menos de U$S 360 al mes.
Le Figaro (18.02.2016) Travailler plus longtemps et aligner les régimes privés et publics de retraite sont les deux axes proposés, ce mercredi, par le think tank libéral pour assurer l'avenir des retraites.
Le Monde (23.02.2016) Les agents de Pôle emploi voient cette nouvelle proposition avancée par le gouvernement comme une « énième réforme » à répercuter. « Je m’adapte, je ne me pose plus de questions et j’applique. Mais pour l’expliquer aux demandeurs d’emploi, il faudra des éléments de langage adaptés. Ça risque d’être très tendu », anticipe Zoé, qui précise que ses collègues prennent déjà leur permanence à l’accueil « comme on part au front ».
lefigaro.fr (11.02.2016) La Suisse connaît actuellement une hausse du nombre de demandeurs d'emploi, qui touche plus particulièrement les travailleurs frontaliers. L'assurance chômage française est contrainte de prendre en charge l'indemnisation de ces travailleurs qui n'ont pourtant pas cotisé.
Buenos Aires Herald (12.02.2016) Pensions and the Universal Child Allowance (AUH) will be increasing by 15.35 percent as of March 1, with minimum pensions clocking in at 4,959 pesos a month. President Mauricio Macri made the announcement and linked the increase with overall concerns about increasing consumer prices.
