Since 2010, the Government of Indonesia
(GoI) has set official poverty reduction targets and
emphasized the importance of a well-functioning social
assistance system...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 120905Date: December 11, 2017
Development and humanitarian actors
currently engaged in Somalia face the challenge of
delivering assistance in such a way that it is supportive of
peace and state building,...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 93238Date: December 9, 2014Author:
Bryld, Erik ;
Kamau, Christine ;
Sinigallia, Dina
The Bulgarian labor market has suffered
from the economic crisis, and cyclical unemployment has
turned into structural unemployment. The labor market crisis
is amplified...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 94520Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Dimitrov,Yordan ;
Duell,Nicola Helene
Non-compliance with regulations by
enterprises is said to be rife in developing countries. Yet
there is limited systematic evidence of the magnitude of
non-compliance...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 83767Date: December 9, 2013Author:
Chatterjee, Urmila; Kanbur, Ravi
This report presents the results of a
highly simplified profiling exercise to demonstrate the
initial steps of profiling and draw some initial conclusions
on the types...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 83889Date: November 1, 2013Author:
Finn,Dan J. ;
Grun,Rebekka E. ;
Herrera Sosa,Katia Marina ;
Immervoll,Herwig ;
Ridao-Cano,Cristobal ;
Uysal Kolasin,Gokce ;
Yener,Ahmet Levent
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)
is the most prevalent form of gender inequality. More than
one third of the women in the world have experienced some
form of...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 83209Date: November 1, 2013
Although the recent market turmoil has
been driven primarily by external factors, it has magnified
India's macroeconomic vulnerabilities. India was just
one of a large...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: AUS5757Date: October 1, 2013
As developing economies continue to
mature and enter the next phase of reforms, labor market
issues and key policy instruments such as the minimum wage
increasingly...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 83542Date: July 30, 2013
The objective of this assessment is to
respond to the government's call for analytical work to
guide the development of an improved social protection
system. Its goal...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 78195Date: June 14, 2013
Addressing youth issues is essential to
promoting stability and preventing violence in fragile and
conflict-affected states. However, there is little evidence
that youth...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 86430Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Rebosio, Michelle ;
Romanova, Ekaterina ;
Corman, Crystal ;
Christophe, Danielle
Civil society in Yemen is vibrant and
diverse but highly fragmented. It includes independent
registered and organized civic groups, less organized local
self-help organizations,...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 81095Date: June 1, 2013
Kenya has experienced a decade of
relatively strong economic growth. Between 2000 and 2009,
economic growth in Kenya averaged 3.7 percent. However,
growth declined sharply...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 80968Date: May 1, 2013Author:
Sandford, Judith ;
MacAuslan, Ian ;
Coll-Black, Sarah ;
Munavu, Michael ;
Tesliuc, Cornelia ;
Wiseman, Will
Authors investigate the size of returns
to capital and the determinants of capital accumulation in
microenterprises (MEs) in a developing country context.
Marginal returns...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 77928Date: March 1, 2013Author:
Gobel, Kristin ;
Grimm, Michael ;
Lay, Jann
The Voice, Choice and Decision (VCD): a
study of local governance processes in Cambodia (VCD1)
study, conducted in 2011, led to a set of useful insights
into the channels...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 82654Date: March 1, 2013Author:
Ojendal, Joakim ;
Plummer,Janelle ;
Tritt, Gavin
Small entrepreneurs in poor countries
achieve relatively high marginal returns to capital but show
only low re-investment rates. The literature is rather
inconclusive...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 77936Date: February 1, 2013Author:
Grimm, Michael ;
Gubert, Flore ;
Koriko, Ousman ;
Lay, Jann ;
Nordman, Christophe J.
The vision of Pakistan's social
protection strategy to reach the poor and vulnerable (2007)
is 'to develop an integrated and comprehensive social
protection system,...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 66421Date: January 24, 2013
This project was undertaken so that an
understanding could be developed to enable policies,
strategies programmes and projects to be developed for
raising the productivity...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 77876Date: January 1, 2013Author:
Abbott, Pamela
This note outlines common ground in the
World Bank and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
approaches to building social protection systems, using a
focus on children...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 75044Date: January 1, 2013
The report is organized as follows: the
remainder of this chapter sets the country context and
framework for the report. It focuses on highlighting the
constraints to...
Type: Other Social Protection StudyReport#: 69635Date: December 17, 2012
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