La evolución de las estructuras familiares en el mundo muestra que existe una gran diversidad de familias. Siendo un fenómeno principalmente cultural, la familia es el reflejo profundo, en su estructura y sus funciones, de una historia y una cultura. El presente informe trata de analizar dicha diversidad. Efectivamente, ¿qué tienen en común la familia tradicional asiática, la familia aún más...

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The retired population can be expected to make a substantial claim on the economic resources of virtually every nation. This book is geared to helping planners devise workable and efficient pension systems for Caribbean nations. It offers specific discussions of instruments, programs, and experiences in various Latin American and Caribbean nations and potential solutions that draw on the...

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Empirical analysis of two decades of pioneering pension and social security reform in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that much has been achieved, but that critical challenges remain. In tackling this unfinished agenda, a great deal can be learned from the reform experience of countries in the region. 'Keeping the Promise of Social Security in Latin America', produced by the chief...

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This document lays out the social security strategy of the International Labour Organization on the extension of social security. The ILO's two-dimensional strategy provides clear guidance on the future development of social security in countries at all levels of development. Its horizontal dimension aims at establishing and maintaining social protection floors as a fundamental element of national...

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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...

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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,...

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This paper systematically compares and evaluates the reforms of private pensions systems in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Hungary due to initial failures in design and performance after its implementation. The document presents advantages and flaws of the structural reforms and private pension systems before the re-reform and analyses legal features and socio-economic effects of the re-reforms....

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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...

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This policy paper: (i) examines IMF government spending projections for 181 countries, identifying two main phases: fiscal expansion (2008-2009) and fiscal consolidation (2010 onwards); (ii) presents the main adjustment measures considered since 2010 and their adverse socio-economic impacts in both high income and developing countries; (iii) analyses divergent trends in social protection across...

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La necesidad de disponer información sobre las historias laborales de las personas o más específicamente las historias de cotizaciones a los regímenes de seguridad social motivó la realización de un Seminario Taller que se realizó el día 20 de marzo de 2003 en la sede del Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social de la República Argentina. El evento fue organizado en forma conjunta por la...

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