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Affordability of long-term care systems in times of rapid population ageing

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CEPR (29.11.2024) Rapid population ageing is increasing the pressure on public finances to provide adequate support for long-term care recipients. This column compares the impact of diverse social protection measures across 32 OECD and EU countries on poverty rates and out-of-pocket expenses among older adults with care needs. The analysis reveals substantial room for improvement and reforms, with existing systems often unaffordable and badly targeted.
Global challenges
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Long-term care
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Tunisians share how their life changed through the AMEN Program

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worldbank.org (14.11.2024) The Amen Program is a social assistance initiative in Tunisia that targets the country's most vulnerable citizens with cash transfers, medical services, and economic empowerment opportunities. As of December 2023, the program reached over 333,000 poor households (more than 10% of the population) with monthly cash transfers and more than 620,000 low-income households with free and subsidized healthcare services. Three Tunisians share their positive experience with AMEN, where 54% of cash transfer beneficiaries are women-headed households and more than 156,000 children
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tunisia
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Social assistance
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How Mexico’s reformed pension system is improving workers’ retirement security

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Benefits Canada.com (15.11.2024) Earlier this year, Mexico’s senate approved the creation of a new pension fund to help provide more retirement security for low-income citizens. “Congress approved this change to the pension system, which basically established a new welfare pension fund,” says Pedro Trejo, retirement director at WTW Mexico. “The fund was created to help employees with their retirement savings and the general population that’s involved in the social security system will get the benefit. That means more than 80 per cent of the population in Mexico could benefit from this reform.”
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mexico
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Pensions
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Social protection and climate change financing: Synergies and challenges

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Global Social Policy (Nov 2024) The human cost of climate change is stark, with increased poverty and displacement and severe risks to health and livelihoods all predicted. Climate change reproduces existing inequalities, with vulnerability to its effects driven by poverty, inequality and social status (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2022). These factors increase the vulnerability of the poor and subject those in developing countries to greater socio-economic and environmental risks.
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Environment and climate change
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Taiwan to launch Long-term Care Plan 3.0 in 2025

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taiwannews (10.11.2024) As Taiwan soon becomes a “super-aged” society, Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun said the Long-term Care Plan 3.0 will be launched in 2025 to provide more assistance to elderly people and caregivers.
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Taiwan, China
Global challenges
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Long-term care
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How to leverage digital tools for social protection

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World Economic Forum(23.10.2024) While digital technologies aim to enhance the efficiency of social protection systems for marginalized groups, their implementation often leads to exclusions and a disconnect between citizens and local governance. To address challenges, especially given the need for social protection for climate resilience of the poor, there is a pressing need for community-based digital solutions that empower citizens. Effective social protection requires robust informational infrastructure that informs citizens about their rights, available support and how to hold local autho
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Digital inclusion
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Mexico: Government begins work to promote initiative on app workers

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AméricaEconomía (14.10.2024) The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, established in her 59th commitment to promote a reform to the Federal Labor Law (LFT) to provide social security to workers through a digital platform, so the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) began meetings with workers in this sector in order to advance the content of the proposal. The agency headed by Marath Bolaños called this week the groups of digital platform workers to a meeting to present the proposal, which should be ready this month. “Commitments 59.
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mexico
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Platform workers
Digital plateform workers
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Platform workers: Council adopts new rules to improve their working conditions

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consilium.europa.eu (14.10.2024) The Council has adopted new rules that aim to improve working conditions for the more than 28 million people working in digital labour platforms across the EU. The platform work directive will make the use of algorithms in human resources management more transparent, ensuring that automated systems are monitored by qualified staff and that workers have the right to contest automated decisions. It will also help correctly determine the employment status of persons working for platforms, enabling them to benefit from any labour rights they are entitled to.
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Europe
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Platform workers
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Malaysia expands social protection coverage to foreign workers

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ilo.org (02.10.2024) Invalidity and survivors’ benefits have recently been extended to migrant workers in Malaysia effective 1 July 2024. The ILO’s Simon Brimblecombe explains why this is an important step forward that will benefit workers, employers, and Malaysia alike.
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malaysia
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Migration
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