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View Resource Estructura jurídica de la seguridad social y sus instituciones en América "Subregión III-Cono Sur"

El presente trabajo no pretende constituir un estudio exhaustivo sobre el origen y evolución de cada uno de los regímenes en lo particular, así como tampoco de las causas que han incidido en su desarrollo toda vez, como ya se ha expresado desde el primer volumen, no es tarea de la Comisión formular juicios de valor sobre la seguridad social de los países del hemisferio, sino más bien presentar un...

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View Resource Evolución y funcionamiento de los sistemas de seguridad social en el Caribe de habla inglesa

La tendencia general indica que los sistemas de seguridad social están enfrentando una crisis en la que su futuro se ve amenazado por desequilibrios actuariales, ya sea reales o potenciales. Los sistemas en los países del Caribe de habla inglesa no han escapado a tales crisis. Es dentro de este contexto donde se establece un marco teórico para evaluar la evolución y el funcionamiento de los...

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View Resource Primer ciclo de Conferencias de Alto Nivel. La seguridad social en Iberoamérica, al término del Siglo XX

Esta publicación recoge una muestra de este debate permanente, en donde dirigentes de la seguridad social de Iberoamérica y expertos internacionales en la materia, exponen las condiciones en que se encuentra la seguridad social en general y aportan un panorama de primera mano de su situación en cada uno de los países. Contenido: La seguridad social americana en el contexto de la seguridad social...

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View Resource Salud y desarrollo

El tema de este libro sirvió de título a la Reunión Técnica que se llevó a cabo, los días 18 y 19 de abril de 1996 en la ciudad de San José de Costa Rica, organizada por la CAMS, la Coordinación de la Subregión III de la CISS y la Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social. La presente publicación integra las ponencias que se presentaron en dicha reunión y las aportaciones de expertos invitados. La...

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View Resource Racionalización del costo de la atención médica. Tercer seminario

Contenido: Racionalización del costo de la atención médica. Análisis factorial del costo. Atención primaria en salud. Autoatención. Niveles de atención. Regionalización. APENDICE "A": Conferencias Relativas al Marco Socioeconómico de la Seguridad Social y la Racionalización del Costo de la Atención Médica. Contexto Socioeconómico y Político en que surge la Seguridad Social en Europa y en América...

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View Resource Acta de la XXXIV Reunión del Comité Permanente Interamericano de Seguridad Social

Contenido: Participantes. Sesión única. Presidium y quorum. Acta de la XXXIII Reunión del CPISS. Informe y programa 1991 de la Secretaria General de la CISS. 1 Introducción. 2 Nuevas Autoridades de la CISS. 3 Acción de las CASS. 4 Acción del CIESS. 5 Relación con otros Organismos Internacionales. 6 Cooperación Técnica Horizontal. 7 Sistema de Información de la Seguridad Social Americana. 8...

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View Resource Economic polarisation and gobernality in México

The purpose of this essay is to appraise alternative hypothesis about the origins of recent social revolt in Mexico. It shows that it is not clear that a severe rise in poverty preceded the origins of violent conflict but social polarisation. Therefore, government attempts to deactivate the economic factors that led to social unrest did not necessarily upgrade povertyreduction policies. The...

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View Resource Toward closing the evaluation gap: lessons from three recent impact evaluations of social programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Despite recent growing demand from funders and governments, rigorous impact evaluations in Latin America and the Caribbean remain the exception rather than the rule. Many commissioned impact evaluations are methodologically weak, and thus only marginally useful in assessing the impact of social interventions. Other impact evaluations feature strong research methodologies at their conception, but...

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View Resource Crime and labor market, choice under uncertainty model and an application for colombian cities

Este trabajo ofrece un modelo para determinar la función de oferta del crimen con base en la teoría de la elección en condiciones de incertidumbre. Con base en el problema de un agente que maximiza su utilidad sujeto a las restricciones del mercado legal e ilegal, este estudio intenta explicar la oferta de la delincuencia como función de la distribución de los salarios y el equivalente cierto de...

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View Resource Introduction (On the studies presented at the International Conference on "Delinquency and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean")

Crime has become the leading concern for citizens of the region and has been pushed to the forefront of the international policy agenda; what is more, the combination of very few success stories and abundant failures in curbing crime and violence has underscored how thin our understanding is and the difficulty of designing and implementing an effective strategy at the local level. This issue...

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View Resource Protecting vulnerable children from uninsured risks: adapting conditional cash transfer programs to provide broader safety nets

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have proved to be effective in inducing chronic poor households to invest in the human capital of their children while helping reduce poverty. They have also protected child human capital from the shocks that affect these households. In this paper, we argue that many non-poor households exposed to uninsured shocks have to use children as risk coping...

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View Resource Mainstreaming natural disaster risk management into social protection policies (and vice versa) in Latina America and the Caribbean

This paper presents and applies the social risk management (SRM) conceptual framework to examine links between disaster risk, hazards, vulnerability, risk management, and social protection (SP). The paper makes the case that it is important to mainstream social protection policies into the disaster risk management (DRM) agenda and, vice versa as a means to improve household and community...

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View Resource Do shocks affect poverty persistance? Evidence using welfare trajectories from Nicaragua

Shocks are often primarily associated with downward mobility or short-term movements in and out of poverty. However, households at the bottom of the welfare distribution are likely to face the most constraints to access insurance mechanisms. In this paper, we consider whether shocks directly affect poverty persistence. In order to analyze the impact of shocks on households’ welfare path over time...

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View Resource Effect of natural disasters on poverty transitions and consumption growth. Evidence for rural Peru

Natural hazards, an increasingly important phenomenon, have a direct impact at regional and household level. The growing incidence and persistence of natural events are strongly linked to increasing vulnerability of households and communities in developing countries. Previous socioeconomic vulnerabilities may exacerbate the impact of a specific event, making more difficult the process of...

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View Resource Hurricane Mitch and consumption growth of nicaraguan agricultural households

There is little micro-evidence on the persistence of natural disasters' welfare impacts. This paper assesses the effect of Hurricane Mitch on consumption of Nicaraguan agricultura) households. Mitch occurred in October 1998. Pre-post data is obtained from a nationally representative panel collected in 1998 and 2001. An additional survey was fielded in 1999 for households from the panel affected...

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View Resource Natural disasters and poverty in Latin America: welfare impacts and social protection solutions

The Inter-American Conference on Social Security (CISS) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Office in Mexico jointly organized the conference “Natural Disasters in Latin America: Welfare Impacts and Social Protection Solutions” held in Mexico City in January 2010. The main objectives of the conference were to improve the understanding of (i) how natural disasters affect...

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View Resource Book review. Informe de evaluación de la política de desarrollo social en México 2008, CONEVAL

The Evaluation Report on Social Development Policy in Mexico was published by the National Council for Social Development Policy Evaluation (CONEVAL) in 2008. The Council is one of the constituting elements of the new institutional framework to evaluate the public sector performance, particularly social development policies that were put in place mostly during the first decade of this century....

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View Resource Impact on earning, employment prospects and timing out of unemployment of mexican programs targeted at unemployed individuals: challenges

his paper presents estimates of the impact of programs for unemployed workers on the performance of program beneficiaries in Mexico. We emphasize the significance of applying methodologies capable of avoiding statistical bias attributable to unobserved variables when measuring the impact on earnings and allowing to us properly estimate unemployment duration and work status after exiting from...

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View Resource PANES: targeting and impact

This research paper intends to quantifit targeting performance in terms of the efficiency of the 1 National Plan for Social Emergency Assistance (PANES) implemented in Uruguay between 2005 and 2007 and determine its impact on relevant issues such as school attendance, child labor and the labor market. For this analysis , we used 2006 and 2007 Continual Household Survey (ECH) data. Our outcomes...

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View Resource Strategic map of financial inclusion: a working tool

Various circumstances make difficult the rigorous study of processes, strategies and impact of V the efforts of financial inclusion and penetration, either at the academie level, in the public policy area or in companies and organizations of financial services industry. The central problem in Mexico has been the lack of a unified agreement on the definition and the low comprehension level of the...

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