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Ethiopia’s scheme to help the poor is setting an example - Extending the safety-net in Ethiopia

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economist.com (31.05.2018) Safety-nets, in one form or another, have proliferated across Africa in recent years

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[Report] ILO: Informal economy - More than 60 per cent of the world’s employed population are in the informal economy

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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.

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[Editorial]|Dos mil millones de informales

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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.

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UAE's Low-income Migrant Workers Have Little Access to Social Protection beyond Health Insurance, Finds Study

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ZAWYA (16.04.2018)  Research investigates key concerns, insurance awareness levels and remittance habits of low-income migrant workers in the country

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[Report] ILO: Social protection for indigenous peoples: an essential component of national development strategies

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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

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Cambodia: New National Social Security Fund Rules Introduced

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Mondaq /22.03.2018) The requirement that all Cambodian employers register their enterprises and employees with the National Social Security Fund is one of a number of changes introduced in recent months as part of the implementation of the health care insurance scheme.

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Commission adopts proposals for a European Labour Authority and for access to social protection

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Europa (13.03.2018) The European Commission has taken more concrete new initiatives to further deliver on the European Pillar of Social Rights. More specifically, the Commission presents its proposal for a European Labour Authority, as announced by President Juncker in his 2017 State of the Union address, as well as an initiative to ensure access to social protection for all workers and self-employed.

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[Report] Women at work: addressing the gaps

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socialprotection.org (2018) Despite progress in education and health worldwide, women still face significant barriers to engage as full economic citizens. There are significant gender gaps in wages and labour market participation. In many cases, women also face barriers and lack the assets needed to become entrepreneurs. These inequalities remain large, persistent and pervasive in many parts of the world.

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Acuerdo tripartito facilitará transición de economía informal hacia economía formal en Costa Rica

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Diario Digital Nuestro País (20.02.2018) Representantes de los sectores sociales en la Mesa de Diálogo que aborda el tema de la informalidad en el mercado de trabajo, firmaron este 20 de febrero el acuerdo de implementación de la Estrategia Integral de Transición a la Economía Formal en Costa Rica, que tiene como objetivo facilitar la transición de las personas trabajadoras y las unidades económicas de la economía informal a la economía formal.

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Uruguay: Infancia vulnerable y déficits de protección social

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 Diario La República (21.01.2018)  La protección social de la infancia debería ser una prioridad mundial; sin embargo, el gasto promedio de los países para tales fines, sin contar la salud, apenas equivale el 1,1 por ciento del Producto Interno Bruto (PIB), alertó Naciones Unidas. Aunque las cuantías en relación con el PIB muestran notables diferencias entre estados y regiones, el saldo general denota la vulnerabilidad de millones de infantes, tanto en naciones ricas como pobres.

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