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1. Inleiding - 2. Werkloosheidswet - 3. Ziektewet - 4. Arbeidsongeschiktheidsregelingen en re-integratie - 5. Arbeidsrechtelijke sociale zekerheid - 6. Algemene ouderdomswet - 7. Algemene nabestaandenwet - 8. Algemene kinderbijslagwet - 9. Zorgverzekeringswet en Algemene Wet Bijzondere Ziektekosten - 10. Wet maatschappelijke ondersteuning - 11. Toeslagenwet - 12. Wet inkomensvoorziening en gedeeltelijk arbeidsongeschikte werkloze werknemers en Wet inkomensvoorziening oudere en gedeeltelijk arbeidsongeschikte gewezen zelfstandigen - 13. Wet werk en bijstand - 14. Financiering - 15. Rechtsbescherming - 16. Internationaal socialezekerheidsrecht - 17. Europees coördinatierecht

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In this timely book, the author, with his life-long experience of international social security, advocates reinstating social insurance by reducing the volume of income redistribution, increasing the transparency of money flows and improving citizen information.

Social service. --- Social security. --- Redistribution du revenu. --- Securite sociale. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Public Policy --- Social Security. --- Social Services & Welfare. --- Insurance, Social --- Insurance, State and compulsory --- Social insurance --- Insurance --- Income maintenance programs --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Benevolent institutions --- Philanthropy --- Relief stations (for the poor) --- Social service agencies --- Social welfare --- Social work --- Human services

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Alleviating poverty for the elderly requires a different approach from other age groups, and a minimum pension is likely to be the only viable option. This paper examines the impact on old age poverty and the fiscal cost of universal minimum old age pensions in 18 Latin American countries using recent household survey data. First the authors measure old age poverty rates for these countries. Then they discuss the design of minimum pensions schemes - means-tested or not - as well as the disincentives they introduce for the economic and social behavior of households including labor supply, saving and family solidarity. Finally, the authors use household survey data to simulate the fiscal cost and the impact on poverty rates of alternative minimum pension schemes in the 18 countries. They show that a universal minimum pension would substantially reduce poverty among the elderly (except in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay where minimum pension systems already exist and poverty rates are low). Such schemes have much to be commended in terms of incentives, spillover effects and administrative simplicity, but they have a high fiscal cost. The latter is a function of the age at which benefits are awarded, the prevailing longevity, the generosity of benefits, the efficacy of means testing, and the fiscal capacity of the country.

Debt Markets --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Health --- Household survey --- Human Development --- Impact on Poverty --- Income --- Inequality --- Insurance --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Means testing --- Nutrition and Population --- Old Age --- Old age poverty --- Poor --- Poor areas --- Poor countries --- Population Policies --- Poverty gap --- Poverty line --- Poverty rates --- Poverty Reduction --- Price subsidies --- Regional Economic Development --- Rural --- Rural Poverty Reduction --- Social assistance --- Social insurance programs

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Social protection systems in Latin America have been transformed in the past two decades. Until the 1980s, those who were not covered by the social security arrangements available primarily in the urban formal sector received little public assistance beyond universal subsidies for some food or fuel purchases. Since the 1990s, the introduction of non-contributory social insurance programs (including "social pensions") and conditional cash transfers has substantially extended the coverage and improved the incidence of social assistance. However, the organic growth of subsidized social assistance in parallel to the older social insurance system, financed largely out of taxes on formal sector employment, has led to a dual system that is neither properly equitable nor efficient. The twin challenges that now face social protection in Latin America are to better integrate those two halves of the system, and to develop programs that promote sustainable self-reliance, by moving from "safety nets" to "opportunity ropes."

Cash transfers --- Consumption smoothing --- Debt Markets --- Farmers --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Health --- Health insurance --- Health Monitoring & Evaluation --- Human Development --- Income --- Insurance --- Insurance Law --- Insurance markets --- Labor market programs --- Law and Development --- Market failures --- Nutrition and Population --- Poor --- Poverty line --- Poverty Reduction --- Public unemployment --- Rural Poverty Reduction --- Safety nets --- Savings --- Services & Transfers to Poor --- Social assistance --- Social insurance programs --- Social security --- Unemployment --- Universal subsidies

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This paper presents a World Bank led and Russia trust fund financed work program to measure financial capability and the effectiveness of financial education in low and middle income countries. The two activities and their staging have been motivated by the lessons of high income countries with financial literacy programs and the deviating characteristics of low and middle income countries. While progress has been made in high-income countries to measure financial capability, there is little robust empirical evidence that financial education can improve it. While applying the financial capability concept in low and middle-income countries looks promising it will need to be adjusted to their characteristic and supported by innovative interventions and rigorous impact evaluation to improve it.

Access & Equity in Basic Education --- Access to Finance --- Accountability --- Accounting --- Behavioral Economics --- Best Practices --- Business Education --- Capacity Building --- Cash Transfers --- Consumer Protection --- Consumers --- Corruption --- Disabilities --- Disability Insurance --- Economic Development --- Economic Policy --- Education --- Education For All --- Employment Services --- Ethnic Minorities --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial Institutions --- Financial Literacy --- Financial Management --- Financial Sector --- Financial Services --- Gender --- Gender Issues --- Human Capital --- Income Distribution --- Income Inequality --- Inequality --- Informal Lenders --- Labor Mobility --- Long-Term Planning --- Loss Aversion --- Marketing --- Minimum Wage --- Occupations --- Pension Plans --- Poverty Impact Evaluation --- Poverty Reduction --- Productivity --- Public Finance --- Public Policy --- Random Sampling --- Refugees --- Remittances --- Retirement --- Risk Management --- Rural Population --- Savings --- Schools --- Securities --- Severance Pay --- Social Insurance --- Social Risk Management --- Unemployment