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In Focus: Social security responding to the financial crisis
The aftermath of global financial and economic crisis continues to affect economies and people in most countries. While the recession seems to have ended, the impact on the labour market looks destined to persist for several more years. Nevertheless, social security systems have responded effectively to the test by softening the impact of the crisis. The challenge for social security now is to continue to cope with the social fall-out.
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Snapshots are intended to give a brief insight into interesting and topical news items connected with the financial and economic crisis.
Deciphering the human cost of the financial crisis
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国际社会保障协会,
2009.11.29 |
Snapshot
| 关于社会保障, 职业危害, 社会保障融资
Invariably, the language employed to discuss the crisis tends to be rather economistic, talking in abstract terms such as downturns, upturns and increasing unemployment rates. In such a context, the human element of the story can easily become lost and appear as an afterthought. The same also app...阅读更多
South Africa uses crisis as an opportunity to extend social security coverage
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国际社会保障协会,
2009.11.14 |
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| 扩大覆盖面
While the crisis continues to constitute a problematic event for social security it has also acted as an incentive to enact improvements in social coverage. An illustration of this can be seen in recent changes to social security coverage in South Africa, where the government is poised to extend...阅读更多
Conditional cash transfers seem to soften impact of crisis
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国际社会保障协会,
2009.09.28 |
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Conditional cash transfers [CCTs] are a form of non-contributory, means-tested social assistance programmes that administer a certain amount of cash to poor households on a regular basis on the condition that the beneficiaries fulfil some obligation(s) aimed at human development and reducing pove...阅读更多
Relevance of social security remains strong amid signs recession may be easing
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国际社会保障协会,
2009.08.12 |
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In recent weeks, many column inches have been devoted to pinpointing where we are exactly in terms of the evolution of the crisis. This speculation has been fuelled by announcements that the recession seems to be over in a number of countries.阅读更多
Latvia implements anti-crisis measures
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国际社会保障协会,
2009.07.23 |
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Unemployment figures have increased significantly in the last two years. In 2007 the unemployment rate was 6%, in June 2009 it had reached 17.2%. 阅读更多
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2010.09.29 |
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Many pensioners have seen their benefits reduced, but the impact has been mitigated by policy responses