From Right to Reality : Incentives, Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean
This series was created in 2003 to promote debate, disseminate information and analysis, and convey the excitement and complexity of the most topical issues in economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean. This volume aims to...
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| author | Ribe, Helena Robalino, David A. Walker, Ian |
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| description | This series was created in 2003 to
promote debate, disseminate information and analysis, and
convey the excitement and complexity of the most topical
issues in economic and social development in Latin America
and the Caribbean. This volume aims to move the debate
forward by: 1) developing a common policy framework for the
region's Social Protection (SP) system as a whole,
including health insurance; 2) providing guidelines on ways
to extend coverage through rationalizing financing
mechanisms and the design of redistributive arrangements;
and 3) making the case for improved coordination of policies
and programs. Building on careful, detailed analysis of a
wealth of data on social protection programs across Latin
America and the Caribbean, this book addresses these
challenges in a thorough yet accessible manner. Although the
analysis is comprehensive, the authors focus primarily on
three fundamental questions that must be faced by any effort
to strengthen social protection in the region: how can
programs protect the most vulnerable without promoting
informality and dampening incentives to work and save? How
can programs ensure that scarce public resources are used
for subsidies that are transparent, fair, and effective-and
not for badly targeted and regressive benefits for formal
sector workers? Finally, how can programs reinforce human
capital development so that the more mobile workers that the
region needs are able to insure themselves through savings
or risk-pooling arrangements, thus reducing vulnerability
and the need for subsidies? |
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| spelling | wb-10986-60082025-04-15T11:48:56Z From Right to Reality : Incentives, Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean De los derechos a la realidad : incentivos, mercados de trabajo, y el desafío de la portección social universal en América Latina y el Caribe De los derechos a la realidad : incentivos, mercados de trabajo, y el desafio de la proteccion social universal en America Latina y el Caribe Ribe, Helena Robalino, David A. Walker, Ian Coherence Coverage Informality Pensions Unemployment insurance Social protection Social safety nets This series was created in 2003 to promote debate, disseminate information and analysis, and convey the excitement and complexity of the most topical issues in economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean. This volume aims to move the debate forward by: 1) developing a common policy framework for the region's Social Protection (SP) system as a whole, including health insurance; 2) providing guidelines on ways to extend coverage through rationalizing financing mechanisms and the design of redistributive arrangements; and 3) making the case for improved coordination of policies and programs. Building on careful, detailed analysis of a wealth of data on social protection programs across Latin America and the Caribbean, this book addresses these challenges in a thorough yet accessible manner. Although the analysis is comprehensive, the authors focus primarily on three fundamental questions that must be faced by any effort to strengthen social protection in the region: how can programs protect the most vulnerable without promoting informality and dampening incentives to work and save? How can programs ensure that scarce public resources are used for subsidies that are transparent, fair, and effective-and not for badly targeted and regressive benefits for formal sector workers? Finally, how can programs reinforce human capital development so that the more mobile workers that the region needs are able to insure themselves through savings or risk-pooling arrangements, thus reducing vulnerability and the need for subsidies? La desigualdad y la pobreza estructural se han reducido en los países de América Latina y el Caribe, gracias en gran medida a la expansión de programas de protección social no contributivos. Sin embargo, siguen existiendo retos. La mayoría de los trabajadores de la economía informal carecen de acceso a la protección social, los programas de previsión tienden a ser fragmentados con poca o nula coordinación entre los mismos, y en muchos casos los elementos redistributivos de los sistemas de aseguramiento social no son transparentes y pueden distorsionar el mercado de trabajo. Este libro aborda estos retos de manera meticulosa y examina los sistemas de protección social existentes en la región destacando su interacción con los mercados de trabajo. Presenta una evaluación profunda de los principales programas, contributivos y no contributivos y hace recomendaciones prácticas para incrementar la cobertura de los programas de protección social, mejorar su diseño y crear mejores empleos. 2012-04-27T07:41:35Z 2012-04-27T07:41:35Z 2012-03-13 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/03/15947574/right-reality-incentives-labor-markets-challenge-universal-social-protection-latin-america-caribbean 978-0-8213-8687-3 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/6008 https://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-8687-3 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank application/pdf text/plain application/pdf application/pdf text/plain Washington, DC: World Bank |
| spellingShingle | Coherence Coverage Informality Pensions Unemployment insurance Social protection Social safety nets Ribe, Helena Robalino, David A. Walker, Ian From Right to Reality : Incentives, Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| title | From Right to Reality : Incentives,
Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social
Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| title_full | From Right to Reality : Incentives,
Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social
Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| title_fullStr | From Right to Reality : Incentives,
Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social
Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Right to Reality : Incentives,
Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social
Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| title_short | From Right to Reality : Incentives,
Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social
Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| title_sort | from right to reality incentives labor markets and the challenge of universal social protection in latin america and the caribbean |
| topic | Coherence Coverage Informality Pensions Unemployment insurance Social protection Social safety nets |
| url | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/03/15947574/right-reality-incentives-labor-markets-challenge-universal-social-protection-latin-america-caribbean https://hdl.handle.net/10986/6008 https://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-8687-3 |
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