.elfinanciero (04.07.2018) Si la nueva administración de Andrés Manuel López Obrador no aprovecha su mayoría en las dos Cámaras para aprobar una nueva Ley de Pensiones, en 32 años México tendrá más de 10 millones de personas de 65 años y más en condición de pobreza, 154 por ciento más respecto a los 3.9 millones reportados en 2016, según un estudio de la Asociación Mexicana de Instituciones de Seguros (AMIS) y la Asociación Mexicana de Administradoras de Fondos para el Retiro (Amafore).

Le Monde (21.06.2018) Les comptes publiés jeudi par la Drees classent la France parmi les pays les plus actifs dans la lutte contre la pauvreté.

ILO (30.04.2018) A new ILO report shows that 2 billion people work informally, most of them in emerging and developing countries. The majority lack social protection, rights at work and decent working conditions.

Jornada net (02.05.2018) El panorama global para los trabajadores es cada vez más incierto de acuerdo a organismos internacionales. Dos mil millones de personas prestan servicios en la economía informal y la calidad del empleo es cada vez más deficiente. Se trata de una situación que ya se registró en los datos oficiales de la OIT y de la CEPAL durante los dos últimos años. Y en Bolivia la situación es muy complicada y de mayor riesgo de que aumente el desempleo.

El Observador (17.04.2018) La flexibilización del acceso a las jubilaciones a partir de la ley 18.395 de 2008 dio lugar a un incremento tanto en el stock como en las altas jubilatorias que se sostuvo hasta 2014.

ILO SocPro (April 2018) Men, women and children from indigenous peoples are estimated
to represent 4.5 per cent of the world’s population (World Bank, 2011).1 They constitute more than 5,000 different groups with distinct cultures, forms of social organization, livelihood strategies, practices, notions of poverty and wellbeing, values, and beliefs profoundly embedded in their collective relationship with the lands and territories that they occupy or use, which is at the heart of their distinct identities. The vast majority, approximately two-thirds of the global indigenous

 Bretton Woods Project (04.04.2018) In recent years, the World Bank and IMF have played an influential role in shaping national social protection policies. Social protection comprises a significant share of World Bank loans, reaching almost 10 per cent of lending to low-income countries in 2017, while around 10 per cent of IMF loans include conditionality linked to social protection. While the institutions collaborate closely on social protection, there are serious shortcomings of the approach of both institutions to the issue.

EurActiv (28.03.2018) Face aux nombreuses difficultés d’accès aux médicaments en Afrique, les États africains tentent d’organiser le marché pour augmenter la production locale, qui ne pèse que 3 % de la production mondiale.

Yemen ReliefWeb (21.03.2018) Life has dramatically changed in Yemen since the conflict started,” said Naji Saeed, a day laborer in the Taiz governorate. The construction work that was the source of Saeed’s livelihood has all but ended as a result of the conflict. “I lost my job like millions of Yemenis and I don’t know what I can do now to feed my children,” added Saeed.

Journal du Cameroun (13.03.2018)  The United National Population Fund (UNFPA) has called on the Botswana government to prioritise economic reform and investment to urgently accelerate creation of jobs and improve livelihoods for the country’s youth, APA learnt here on Wednesday.In a report that was launched by incoming Deputy President Mokgweetsi Masisi, the study cautioned Botswana government and all development actors to “act with urgency and implement game-changing interventions” or it will face consequences related to youth unemployment. =