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Financing Social Protection in Tanzania

Autor: Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan; Abels, Miglena; Novikova, Marina; Mohammed, Muderis Abdulahi; Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan
Año: 2018
Resumen: This note assesses whether social protection programs are adequately financed in mainland Tanzania. We find that social protection programs are an important component of Government expenditures, and complements other Government social spending, including education and health spending. In recent years, the Government has strengthened social protection by: (i) increasing social protection expenditures; (ii) shifting social assistance from generally inefficient food and in-kind programs to more efficient cash-based programs; (iii) shifting social assistance from relatively untargeted programs to those which are targeted to poor people; and (iv) easing demand side constraints faced by households investing in human capital. Despite these positive developments, challenges to social protection remain: (i) social assistance and employment programs remain underfunded relative to the needs of the population; (ii) development partner financing remains crucial even though they are prone to external risks; (iii) little isknown about which social welfare services and employment programs work well; (iv) many pensionparameters are not in line with best-practice and therefore, sustainability can be improved; (v) generalized subsidies, which are notoriously bad instruments to target poor people, are absorbing Government resources in a tight fiscal environment.

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Notas de Pensiones
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Demographic changes

Autor: Asociación Internacional de la Seguridad Social (AISS)
Año: 2017
Resumen: This report, the fourth and last in an ISSA series seeking to assist members in anticipating and reacting to megatrends, summarizes selected demographic trends likely to have significant future impacts on social security institutions. It builds on important work completed by the Association on demographic trends and proactive and preventive approaches during previous trienniums, and contributes to the new ISSA focus on the “ten global challenges” facing social security identified at the ISSA World Social Security Forum 2016. Social security exists to respond to life-cycle risks. Demographic changes directly affect the nature of these risks and the ability of institutions to respond effectively to them in the benefits and services they provide. As for the other megatrends studied previously, the report highlights the fact that social security administrations can often both mitigate and influence positively the impacts of future demographic evolution. This report assists institutions by anticipating and predicting future trends, analysing their impact on social security systems and considers the measures with which to respond. It thereby provides useful support to other measures put in place by governments and policy-makers in a rapidly changing world. Anticipating and reacting to the external environment in which social security operates is a crucial part of what social security institutions are and should be doing. Evidence suggests that the greater degree to which institutions can prepare for the likely impacts of these trends, the better and more efficient will be their responses. The scope of the report is wide and the aim, on the one hand, is to focus on those trends most likely to impact social security institutions and, on the other hand, to focus on nascent trends that are subject to significant levels of uncertainty

Fuente: Asociación Internacional de la Seguridad Social (AISS)
Clasificación: Demografía
Tipo de Publicación: Informes
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El Aporte de los Programas de Capitalización en la Construcción de la Pensión: Desafíos y Propuestas

Autor: Federación Internacional de Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (FIAP)
Año: 2017
Resumen: Capítulo i. Logros y nuevos retos de los sistemas de pensiones de contribución definida. Capítulo ii. Los desafíos de una población mundial que envejece capítulo iii. Hábitos de ahorro en la región capítulo iv. La inversión de recursos pensionarios en proyectos productivos. Capítulo v. La responsabilidad social de los fondos de pensiones. Capítulo vi. ¿cómo y dónde agrega valor un manejador externo? .

Fuente: Federación Internacional de Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (FIAP)
Clasificación: Reformas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Libros
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Universal social protection floors; costing estimates and affordability in 57 lower income countries

Autor: Ortiz, Isabel; Durán-Valverde, Fabio; Pal, Karuna; Behrendt, Christina; Acuña-Ulate, Andrés
Año: 2017
Resumen: This paper presents the results of costing universal social protection floors in 34 lower middle-income, and 23 low-income countries, consisting of: (i) allowances for all children and all orphans; (ii) maternity benefits for all women with newborns; (iii) benefits for all persons with severe disabilities, and (iv) universal old-age pensions. The levels of this comparable set of benefits are based on nationally-defined poverty lines, and .presented as a percentage of GDP. The paper additionally reviews potential areas of fiscal space for the necessary extension of social protection systems, and concludes that universal social protection floors are feasible in the majority of developing countries.

Fuente: Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT)
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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The Gender Pension Gap in the Aging Societies of East Asia

Autor: Banco Mundial
Año: 2017
Resumen: Over the years pension systems have been an essential policy tool for the economic protection of older adults across countries and regions. But in a context of widespread inequality, not everyone enjoys the same level of protection. Because women’s life courses are different from men’s, pension systems often have different outcomes for women and men. With populations aging in East Asia, the gender pension gap is affecting more and more women. This note summarizes the results of a study that examined pension policies and their gender dimensions in several countries of East Asia. The study examined the labor force behavior of women aged 45 years and over in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines, investigating the key policy and behavioral drivers of their observed labor force participation and withdrawal. Empirical and policy analysis is supplemented with qualitative insights from focus groups and individual interviews with women in the focus countries who are nearing retirement age or have already withdrawn from the workforce. The findings fill important and policy-relevant knowledge gaps on pensions and retirement and on gender differentials in endowments, economic opportunities, and well-being at older ages.

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Informes
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