This book outlines basic concepts such as the social protection floor and the social security staircase, analyses the affordability of various approaches, and examines the results of practices around the world, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Este libro describe los conceptos básicos como el piso de protección social y de la escalera de la seguridad social, analiza la asequibilidad...
Report of the Social Protection Floor Advisory Group chaired by Michelle Bachelet. In many ways the power of the social protection floor lies in its simplicity. The floor is based on the idea that everyone should enjoy at least basic income security sufficient to live, guaranteed through transfers in cash or in kind, such as pensions for the elderly and persons with disabilities, child benefits,...
This paper presents eight financing alternatives, based on policy positions by the United Nations and international financial institutions, and shows that fiscal space for social protection exists even in the poorest countries. Of the eight options, six increase the overall size of a country’s budget: (i) increasing tax revenues; (ii) expanding social security coverage and contributory revenues;...
This working paper summarizes some of the linkages between gender inequality and access to social protection, then discusses the contribution of national social protection floors as powerful tools in reducing gender inequalities and women’s poverty, and summarizes recent developments in the international legal framework relevant to gender equality and social protection floors. It highlights some...
El documento concluye con una exposición a grandes rasgos de algunos elementos fundamentales de las estrategias nacionales e interacciónales en la materia. Debe reconocerse que la seguridad social es un instrumento primordial para hacer frente a algunas de las consecuencias sociales negativas de la mundialización. Las políticas nacionales deberán tener par objeto mejorar y reformar los programas...
OBJETIVO: Analizar las vías de acción implementadas en México por el sector salud entre 2007 y 2012 para atender las inequidades en salud, incidiendo en sus determinantes sociales. Contribuir a mejorar la comprensión y el conocimiento sobre cómo incidir en la reducción de las desigualdades de los sistemas de salud en la Región de las Américas. Formular recomendaciones para definir una agenda...
Between 2003 and 2009, Argentina’s social spending as a share of GDP increased by 7.6 percentage points. Marginal benefit incidence analysis for 2003, 2006, and 2009 suggests that the contribution of cash transfers to the reduction of disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory pension program – the pension...
Este artículo presenta los principales riesgos que se enfrentan en un sistema de capitalización individual y describe la regulación que en el caso de Chile permite mitigarlos. Uno de los principales riesgos que se enfrentan se refiere al de inversión de los fondos, respecto del cual se analiza el sustento que puede tener una estrategia de inversión de ciclo de vida. Al evaluar estas estrategias se...
This paper explores the relationship between the inequality of income distribution and the economic growth of 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries during the 1980-2010 period. The study shows that the features of this relationship depend on the income level. In general, inequality is harmful to economic growth. However, when it comes to the upper tail of the richer countries’ income...
Three essential goals of pension plan funding are the long-term viability, stability and security of member benefits. Reform of funding regulations for defined benefit (DB) pension schemes to make them more counter-cyclical in nature can help achieve these goals as well as make DB schemes more attractive to plan sponsors that are increasingly moving away from DB towards defined contribution plans....
