Population–Poverty–Inequality Nexus and Social Protection in Africa
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-020-02381-0
Abstract: This study examines how social protection policies and programmes can help in poverty and inequality reduction in Africa. The study covers 38 African countries and engages the fixed and random effects models utilising data sourced… read more here.
Keywords: provision social; social protection; poverty inequality; protection ... See more keywords
Reaching the poorest and most vulnerable: addressing loss and damage through social protection
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.010
Abstract: A growing scientific evidence reaffirms that slow onset climate events such as desertification, sea level rise and loss of biodiversity will place an increasing number of people at risk of poverty and social marginalization. Establishing… read more here.
Keywords: protection; vulnerable addressing; loss; poorest vulnerable ... See more keywords
Poverty, social protection and agriculture: Levels and trends in data
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2017.06.001
Abstract: Abstract This paper shows that despite progress in reducing extreme poverty, little progress has been made in reducing the number of people living on between $1.25 and $2 a day and it provides updated estimates… read more here.
Keywords: poverty social; poverty; levels trends; social protection ... See more keywords
Targeting Women's vulnerable employment through social protection: A quasi-experimental regression discontinuity design
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DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e08964
Abstract: In Pakistan, women face economic and social vulnerability, which keeps them underpaid even without social barriers. Government micro and macroeconomic policies are aimed at income generation rather than making women part of the economic mainstream.… read more here.
Keywords: vulnerable employment; social protection; women vulnerable; regression discontinuity ... See more keywords
International migration and informal social protection in rural Mozambique
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rie.2017.04.002
Abstract: This paper uses a unique household survey from two southern regions in Mozambique to examine the extent to which dispatching family labour abroad is a source of informal social protection for households left behind. We… read more here.
Keywords: informal social; social protection; international migration; migration ... See more keywords
Different pathways of social protection reforms: An analysis of long-term institutional change in Kenya
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105210
Abstract: Abstract The potential of social protection to contribute to inclusive growth has been increasingly recognized throughout the last two decades. Social protection reforms involve comprehensive processes of long-term institutional change. Dynamics differ not only across… read more here.
Keywords: protection reforms; protection; long term; change ... See more keywords
Social protection and multidimensional poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105634
Abstract: Abstract We investigate the impact of three large-scale social-protection schemes in Ethiopia, India, and Peru on multidimensional poverty. Using data from the Young Lives cohort study, we show the trend, changes and evolution of multidimensional… read more here.
Keywords: india peru; ethiopia india; social protection; multidimensional poverty ... See more keywords
Biofilms facilitate cheating and social exploitation of β-lactam resistance in Escherichia coli.
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DOI: 10.1038/s41522-019-0109-2
Abstract: Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli commonly resist β-lactam antibiotics using plasmid-encoded β-lactamase enzymes. Bacterial strains that express β-lactamases have been found to detoxify liquid cultures and thus to protect genetically susceptible strains, constituting a… read more here.
Keywords: escherichia coli; coli biofilms; social protection; exploitation ... See more keywords
Do Labor Market Flexibility and Efficiency Increase Government Social Protection Expenditures?
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1888861
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between labour market flexibility and efficiency and social protection expenditures. Building on the theories of government expenditures and the empirical literature on the determinants of social protection, the article… read more here.
Keywords: protection expenditures; social protection; market flexibility; protection ... See more keywords
The Impact of Covid-19 and Social Protection Programs on Poverty in Indonesia
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DOI: 10.1080/00074918.2021.2005519
Abstract: Covid-19 remained the largest challenge for the Indonesian economy in 2021. In particular, Covid-19 case numbers hit a new high of about 50,000 cases per day in mid-July. In response, the government increased the contact… read more here.
Keywords: impact covid; social protection; covid social; protection programs ... See more keywords
Recent trends in intra-EU mobilities: the articulation between migration, social protection, gender and citizenship systems
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DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1770828
Abstract: ABSTRACT Recent intra-European mobilities can be analysed from the perspective of transformations in the European migration system, especially following the 2008 Great Recession, which requires moving beyond portrayals of such flows as problem-free mobilities resembling… read more here.
Keywords: gender citizenship; citizenship systems; social protection; migration ... See more keywords