L'Opinion (24.02.2016) L’enjeu est de taille pour l’avenir du Maroc qui met dans son collimateur la démocratie, laquelle ne peut aboutir sans justice sociale.
Senego (24.02.2016) La protection sociale, jadis considérée comme « utopique », est devenue une réalité grâce au Plan Sénégal émergent (PSE), notamment dans son pilier 2 qui donne une importance capitale au capital humain, a indiqué, mercredi à Mbour, le docteur Cheikh Ndiaye, directeur général de l’Action sociale.
Trend (23.02.2016) Azerbaijan’s parliament passed the changes to the budget of the State Social Protection Fund (SSPF) for 2016 at a plenary session Feb. 23.
EurActiv (15.02.2016) What is the future of work, and the future of jobs? For the last several decades, the workers of Germany, the US and Europe have been the most productive and wealthiest in the world. But now that prosperity is in danger.
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.
