Recording of the webinar that continues the series on Shock Responsive Social Protection. Organised by the Oxford Policy Management, OPM and hosted by socialprotection.org, this session addressed how Latin American and Caribbean countries have been i
En este documento se analiza comparativamente el avance de los países americanos en la universalización de la seguridad social en 2019. En particular, se estudia la universalización de la cobertura desde una perspectiva multidimensional, empleando el marco analítico de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo, que contempla las dimensiones de alcance, extensión y nivel.
The Social Protection Pathways to Nutrition study is a partnership between the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Food Programme (WFP). The overarching goal of the Social Protection Pathways to Nutrition study is to review the evidence and propose an analytical and operational framework.
Labor allocation to its most efficient use, promoting employment and human capital investment as well as functioning labor markets can contribute to long-term economic growth, poverty reduction and to help workers manage their risks. A labor market policy framework includes both regulations and programs. However, the optimal framework is not standard and universal but varies country by country depending on the level of economic and financial development, culture and other structural characteristics.
The Dominican Republic has made strides on many socioeconomic fronts over the years. The country has been one of the leading economies in Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of GDP growth, reaching upper middle-income status in 2011. However, progress on the different dimensions of well-being has been insufficient. In particular, socioeconomic and territorial disparities are still important, and public institutions remain insufficiently solid. For the Dominican Republic to embark on a more prosperous development path, three critical dimensions must be tackled.
Energy subsidies, which have a long history of use by governments around the world, have been rising in recent years after a brief period of decline. Despite their significant wider costs, subsidies are used by governments for various policy, and political, reasons. Faced with recent external shocks, governments around the world have had to manage difficult tradeoffs between the need to protect their citizens against substantial increases in the cost of living and the fiscal risks that greater and continued subsidies impose.
This compilation seeks to provide the humanitarian sector with concrete recommendations based on the mapping of coordination initiatives in each country of the region that has a CWG or maintains other types of coordination spaces (i.e., working groups or thematic forums), aimed at linking humanitarian CVA with social protection, and that are part of the CALP network and/or the CWG-R4V.