Programme & evaluation

The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope

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cornell.edu (05.02.2024) The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope explains how an array of social welfare programs (comprising the safety net) have emerged as a leitmotif of social policy in independent India and explores the key challenges and scope for innovations in redesigning India’s social safety net system for the future. This open-access book provides a comprehensive analysis of India’s safety net by combining insights from a wealth of interdisciplinary scholarship on economic development, social protection, and the social policy process.

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india
Global challenges
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Social Europe: Eurobarometer survey shows Europeans support stronger social policies and more social spending

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European Commission (06.02.2023) A newly released Eurobarometer survey shows that an overwhelming majority of EU citizens support strong action at EU and national level as well as more social spending.

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european union
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The Social Protection Indicator for the Pacific: Tracking Developments in Social Protection

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Asian Development Bank (Dec 2022) It uses the bank’s Social Protection Indicator to assess the level of resources invested in social protection, the extent of coverage, and the benefit levels of social protection programs. Further data disaggregation provides the distribution of social protection expenditures in relation to poverty, gender, and people with disabilities. The report identifies measures adopted in response to the coronavirus disease pandemic and outlines future directions for social protection in the Pacific region.

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Asia
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More than just cash: an innovative child grant in Papua province

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Development Pathways (03.03.2021) Given the need to address child development issues and to improve the coverage of social protection programmes across Papua, the Provincial Government of Papua (PGP) responded by launching BANGGA Papua, a child grant for all indigenous Papuan children from birth until their 4th birthday.

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Papua New Guinea
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Family benefits
Cash transfers
Programme & evaluation
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LeFrance: Covid-19 met la Sécu à genoux avec un trou d’au moins 41 milliards d’euros

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leparisien.fr (22.04.2020) Auditionné par la commission des Affaires sociales du Sénat, le ministre des Comptes publics a souligné d'emblée « le caractère exceptionnel et changeant » de ses prévisions budgétaires. Le cru 2019, meilleur que prévu avec tout de même une perte de 1,9 milliard d'euros, « nous paraît loin aujourd'hui », tant le millésime 2020 est parti pour pulvériser tous les records.

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france
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Actuarial
Governance and administration
Financing
Programme & evaluation
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Hit and Miss: An assessment of targeting effectiveness in social protection

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Development Pathways (March 2019) This paper is the result of a global review of the effectiveness of different methods of selecting social protection recipients, both targeted and universal schemes. The work considered the effectiveness of 38 programmes across 23 low- and middle-income countries, including means-tested schemes and those using proxy means testing, community-based targeting, self-targeted and pension testing.

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Programme evaluation
Conditional cash transfers
Programme & evaluation

À quoi sert le contrôle des chômeurs ?

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Explication et légitimité de la lutte contre la fraude dans le domaine de l'emploi

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Europe
Global challenges
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Unemployment
Employment policies
Employment of young workers
Contribution collection and compliance
Programme & evaluation
Error, evasion and fraud
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