Tanzania: New pension schemes all set to start disbursing unemployment benefits

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ippmedia.com (29.10.2018) The Public Service Social Security Fund (PSSSF) and National Social Security Fund (NSSF) are in the final stages of setting up operational guidelines for issuance of unemployment benefits to members, the sector regulator announced yesterday.

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tanzania
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Unemployment
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Uruguay lidera en América Latina la cobertura en cuidados paliativos

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Presidencia de la República (28.10.2018) Según las últimas cifras difundidas por el Ministerio de Salud Pública, la mitad de los pacientes que requieren cuidados paliativos acceden a ellos, tanto en servicios públicos como privados. En 2012 la cifra no llegaba a uno de cada cinco. Uruguay se ubica en el primer lugar de América Latina en la materia. El ministro Jorge Basso señaló como fundamental que las familias conozcan sus derechos al respecto

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uruguay
Global challenges
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Health
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World Development Report 2019: International Labour Office expresses concern about World Bank report on future of work

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ILO (12.10.2018) Following the publication of the World Development Report 2019 on ‘The Changing Nature of Work’, the International Labour Office questions the approach to some key issues addressed in the publication.

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World’s pension funds vulnerable to climate risks, study reveals

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Euractiv.com (23.10.2018) 87% of assets managed by the world’s 100 largest public pension funds are yet to undergo a formal climate risk assessment, according to research published on Tuesday (23 October), with only 15% of them adopting a coal exclusion policy.

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Investment
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América Latina y el Caribe: CEPAL y OIT recalcan importancia de transitar hacia un modelo más sostenible de desarrollo para generar nuevas oportunidades de empleo

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ilo.org/americas (23.10.2018) América Latina y el Caribe es la región más biodiversa del mundo, pero está perdiendo su riqueza natural con el deterioro ambiental que provoca el actual estilo de desarrollo. De allí que resulta urgente una transición hacia un modelo más sostenible tanto desde el punto de vista medioambiental como laboral, lo que permitiría acceder a nuevas oportunidades y mejoras en el empleo, señalan la CEPAL y la OIT en una nueva publicación conjunta.

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latin america
Topics
Employment
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[Policy Brief] WHO/Europe: Ensuring access to medicines: How to stimulate innovation to meet patients' needs?

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euro.who.(October 2018) This policy brief is one of a series on addressing market and policy failures in the pharmaceutical sector that was prepared for the Austrian EU Presidency. It aims to inform discussions about stimulating more meaningful productivity in terms of R&D. More specifically, it explores how R&D efforts can be steered to areas of unmet clinical needs and how efficiency in the R&D process can be increased. It also explicitly considers concrete options for strength

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Europe
Global challenges
Topics
Health promotion
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Les petits jobs, moteur de l’économie canadienne

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Le Temps (26.10.2018) Plutôt que de privilégier le développement des «emplois d’avenir», qui seraient des métiers hautement qualifiés, les Canadiens, et notamment les Québécois, misent depuis longtemps sur les petits jobs. Avec succès

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canada
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The future of work: Switzerland’s digital opportunity

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McKinsey (25.10.2018) New technologies can give Switzerland’s economy a much-needed productivity boost, but bold digital transformation and skills development are imperative.  Digital technologies, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) could boost Swiss productivity by around one percentage point a year in the period to 2030.

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switzerland
Global challenges
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Economic impact
Labour market
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Deutschland: Digitalisierung der Arbeit: Wie gelingt der Blick in die Zukunft?

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vorwärts (11.10.2018) Im Bundesarbeitsministerium wird ab sofort in einer Denkfabrik Digitale Arbeitsgesellschaft zur Zukunft der Arbeit geforscht. Ziel: Kluge Vorschläge an die Politik.

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germany
Global challenges
Topics
Employment
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Labour market
Digital Economy Observatory : Only Tags
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