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Household Risk Management And Social Protection In Chile
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Book Synopsis Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile by :
Download or read book Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines whether a social protection system (broadly defined to include policy interventions, public institutions, and the regulation of private institutions to address welfare costs of problems such as job loss and extended unemployment, health episodes, old age, and life-time poverty) exists in Chile or whether it is has a set of loosely co-ordinated programmes instead. It assesses whether households are provided with appropriate tools to mitigate risks to their income, identifies gaps in coverage, and sets out guidelines, grounded in a conceptual framework, designed to increase the effectiveness of social protection.
Download or read book Chile written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is part of the World Bank's advisory and analytical assistance to the Government of Chile. The report examines whether Chile has a social protection "system" - broadly defined to include policy interventions, public institutions, and the regulation of private institutions that lower the welfare costs of adverse shocks to income from job loss and extended unemployment, health episodes, old age, and life-time poverty - or simply a set of loosely coordinated programs. Further, the report assesses whether households are provided with appropriate tools to mitigate risks to their income, identifying gaps in coverage and where instruments are missing. Finally, the report provides the Government with a set of guidelines, grounded in a conceptual framework that if carefully applied, could increase the effectiveness of social protection.
Book Synopsis Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile by : World Bank Staff
Download or read book Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile written by World Bank Staff and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile by :
Download or read book Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chile written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Adaptive Social Protection by : Thomas Bowen
Download or read book Adaptive Social Protection written by Thomas Bowen and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptive social protection (ASP) helps to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to the impacts of large, covariate shocks, such as natural disasters, economic crises, pandemics, conflict, and forced displacement. Through the provision of transfers and services directly to these households, ASP supports their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to the shocks they face—before, during, and after these shocks occur. Over the long term, by supporting these three capacities, ASP can provide a pathway to a more resilient state for households that may otherwise lack the resources to move out of chronically vulnerable situations. Adaptive Social Protection: Building Resilience to Shocks outlines an organizing framework for the design and implementation of ASP, providing insights into the ways in which social protection systems can be made more capable of building household resilience. By way of its four building blocks—programs, information, finance, and institutional arrangements and partnerships—the framework highlights both the elements of existing social protection systems that are the cornerstones for building household resilience, as well as the additional investments that are central to enhancing their ability to generate these outcomes. In this report, the ASP framework and its building blocks have been elaborated primarily in relation to natural disasters and associated climate change. Nevertheless, many of the priorities identified within each building block are also pertinent to the design and implementation of ASP across other types of shocks, providing a foundation for a structured approach to the advancement of this rapidly evolving and complex agenda.
Book Synopsis Social Panorama of Latin America 2020 by : United Nations Publications
Download or read book Social Panorama of Latin America 2020 written by United Nations Publications and published by UN. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines the social impact of an unprecedented crisis. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have spread to all areas of human life, altering the way we interact, crippling economies and bringing about profound changes in societies. The pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated the major structural gaps in the region, and it is clear that the costs of inequality have become unsustainable and that it is necessary to rebuild with equality and sustainability, aiming for the creation of a true welfare state, long overdue in the region.
Book Synopsis How Well Have Social Protection Schemes in Chile Reduced Household Vulnerability? by : Javier Bronfman
Download or read book How Well Have Social Protection Schemes in Chile Reduced Household Vulnerability? written by Javier Bronfman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social Protection and Labor at the World Bank, 2000-08 by : Robert Holzmann
Download or read book Social Protection and Labor at the World Bank, 2000-08 written by Robert Holzmann and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Protection & Labor at the World Bank, 2000-2008 presents a progress review of the sector strategy by the World Bank, published in early 2001. The strategy proposed a new conceptual frameworkOCoSocial Risk ManagementOCoto review and reform existing interventions and propose new ones that better assist vulnerable people in addressing the many risks to which they are exposed."
Book Synopsis For Protection and Promotion by : Margaret Grosh
Download or read book For Protection and Promotion written by Margaret Grosh and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-08-25 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety nets are noncontributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They play important roles in social policy. Safety nets redistribute income, thereby immediately reducing poverty and inequality; they enable households to invest in the human capital of their children and in the livelihoods of their earners; they help households manage risk, both ex ante and ex post; and they allow governments to implement macroeconomic or sectoral reforms that support efficiency and growth. To be effective, safety nets must not only be well intended, but also well designed and well implemented. A good safety net system and its programs are tailored to country circumstances, adequate in their coverage and generosity, equitable, cost-effective, incentive compatible, and sustainable. Good safety nets are also dynamic and change over time as the economy changes or as management problems are solved and new standards are set. Drawing on a wealth of research, policy, and operational documents from both academia and the World Bank s work in over 100 countries, For Protection and Promotion provides pragmatic and informed guidance on how to design and implement safety nets, including useful information on how to define eligibility and select beneficiaries, set and pay benefits, and monitor and evaluate programs and systems. The book synthesizes the literature to date and enriches it with new examples on various program options cash transfers (conditional and unconditional), in-kind transfers, price subsidies, fee waivers, and public works. It concludes with a comprehensive diagnostic for fitting safety net systems and programs to specific circumstances.
Book Synopsis A Guide to the World Bank by : World Bank
Download or read book A Guide to the World Bank written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007-06-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank Group is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Its focus is on helping the poorest people in the poorest countries by using its financial resources, staff, and extensive experience to aid countries in reducing poverty, increasing economic growth, and improving quality of life. In partnership with more than 100 developing countries, the Bank Group is striving to improve health and education, fight corruption, boost agricultural support, build roadsand ports, and protect the environment. Other projects are aimed at rebuilding war-torn countries or regions, providing basic services such as access to clean water, and encouraging investments that create jobs. In addition to this critical groundwork around the world, various parts of the World Bank Group are involved in activities ranging from conducting economic research and analysis to providing financial and advisory services to governments and private enterprises. This completely revised and updated second edition provides an accessible and straightforward overview of the World Bank Group's history, organization, mission, and purpose. Additionally, for those wishing to delve further into subjects of particular interest, the book guides readers to sources containing more detailed information, including annual reports, Web sites, publications, and e-mail addresses for various departments. It also provides information on how to work for or do business with the World Bank. A good introduction for anyone interested in understanding what the World Bank Group does and how it does it, this book shows readers who want to learn more where to begin.
Book Synopsis Beyond Survival by : Truman G. Packard
Download or read book Beyond Survival written by Truman G. Packard and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-06-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Beyond Survival' breaks new ground in the ongoing debate about health finance and financial protection from the costs of health care. The evidence and discussion support the need to consider financial protection, in addition to health status, as a policy objective when setting priorities for health systems. This book reviews the Latin American experience with health reform in the last 20 years and the fundamentals of health system financing, using new evidence to show the magnitude and mechanisms that determine the impoverishing effects of health events (diseases, accidents, and those of the life cycle). It provides options for policy makers on how to protect, and help household to protect themselves,against this impoverishment. The authors use empirical evidence from six case studies commissioned for this report, on Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, and Mexico. This book provides policy makers with a solid conceptual basis for decisions on the contents of mandatory health insurance benefit packages, choices of financing mechanisms, and the roles of public policy in this field. 'Beyond Survival' provides an in-depth analysis of, and organizational alternatives for, risk pooling and health insurance for financial protection. It analyzes the urgent need to extend risk pooling to the informal sector, the challenges for current social insurance arrangements, and options for policy makers to effectively extend risk pooling to the informal sector.
Book Synopsis Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Ecuador and Chile by : Cecilia Osorio Gonnet
Download or read book Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Ecuador and Chile written by Cecilia Osorio Gonnet and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers readers a deeper understanding of the diffusion process of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in Latin America and the role played by experts and international organizations. CCTs have been increasingly implemented around the world in recent decades, and by 2010, 17 countries in Latin America had adopted them. The evidence suggests that this concentration is due to a process of policy diffusion. International organizations contribute to this process; however, the book’s main argument is that there was another, more important actor involved: a regional epistemic community that increased the availability of information about CCTs and reinforced their legitimacy, playing a role in the domestic processes of formulation and adoption. This book addresses the diffusion of the programs throughout the region; diffusion mechanisms that can help us understand the programs’ adoption (emulation, learning and coercion); and the impacts of key actors on the process (epistemic community, international organizations and policymakers).
Book Synopsis Essays on Vulnerability, Poverty and Social Policies by : Javier Bronfman Horovitz
Download or read book Essays on Vulnerability, Poverty and Social Policies written by Javier Bronfman Horovitz and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a deeper look into poverty, risk and deprivation in Chile. Currently in Chile, the Government gauges poverty solely using a national income poverty line, thus missing different aspects of well-being, such as deprivations in health, education and living standards. Additionally, there is no estimation of the level of exposure to future poverty, a key element to take into account when designing and implementing poverty alleviation and human development programs. Chapter I analyzes poverty dynamics and vulnerability to poverty, using the 1996-2001-2006 National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey (CASEN) panel data. The chapter provides estimates of individual levels of vulnerability to poverty using the Chaudhuri et al. (2002) methodology. For all the years covered in the survey vulnerability to poverty affects a larger number of individuals and households than what is observed in the national poverty counts. Using the same data set and the vulnerability estimations of chapter I, chapter II empirically investigates the impact of Chile's social protection's monetary subsidies on vulnerability to poverty during 1996-2006. Since access to monetary subsidies is not random, the use the propensity score matching method to address the problem of selection bias in testing the effect of these transfers is used. The effect of the social protection transfers on vulnerability is examined both for the entire sample and the poor using the Average Treatment Effect on the Treated (ATT) approach and sensitivity analyses. The results suggest that the impact of the monetary subsidies is limited and mixed. They tend to help lower the vulnerability of those who have access to these subsidies in all three periods covered by the survey, but the subsidies show limited effect on the transitory poor. In general, the findings support the claim that these subsidies are unable to address the structural causes of vulnerability faced by individuals in Chile. Using the latest nationally-representative household survey for Chile (CASEN 2011), chapter III estimates multidimensional poverty both at the national and regional level. Based on the Alkire-Foster method and focusing on four dimensions of well-being---education, health, income and living standard---this chapter estimates the level and depth of multidimensional poverty for Chile in 2011. At national level, the results show that fewer individuals are subject to multidimensional poverty compared to the number of poor people estimated using the national income poverty line, however, large variance is found at the regional level, some regions present higher levels of multidimensional poverty than income poverty. Additionally, multidimensional poverty at the regional level appears to vary, both in terms of prevalence and its nature. The multidimensional nature of this methodology provides a deeper understanding of poverty and deprivation, thus it complements income poverty estimates by informing policymakers about the joint distribution of several deprivations. This information can be used to better design and target poverty alleviation programs, as well as better allocate resources at the regional and local level. The other two chapters are focused on evaluating social policy (monetary transfers under the social protection scheme and an evaluation of the national health system in Chile). Finally, chapter IV presents a critical evaluation of the national health system in Chile. This paper examines health insurance choice and its dynamics using panel data from Chile's National Socio Economic Characterization Survey 1996-2001-2006. Two different logistic models are used to explain the determinants of insurance choice as well as what drives the decision to move from the private to the public sector and vice versa. Income is a highly important determinant of choice, as well as age, education, geographical location and health status. Evidence of adverse selection against the public sector was found in both decision models. The results of this paper are in line with most of the previous investigations done on Chile's health insurance system but it advance previous knowledge on the topic by including the dynamism and power for causal inference that panel data permits. All papers are connected to each other in the sense that they study well-being and base the empirical analysis on the same survey data. The policy implications of the study unequivocally call for reform, both in terms of the way the Chilean government measures and conceptualizes poverty and in the way programs are design and implemented.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the World Bank by : Sarah Tenney
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the World Bank written by Sarah Tenney and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the World Bank shows the substantial progress the Bank has made, this mainly through the dictionary section with concise entries on its component institutions, related organizations, its achievements in various fields, some of the major projects and member countries, and its various presidents. The introduction explains how the Bank works while the chronology traces the major events over nearly 70 years. Meanwhile, the list of acronyms reminds us just who the main players are. And the bibliography directs readers to useful internal documentation and outside studies.
Book Synopsis Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century by : D. Rodgers
Download or read book Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century written by D. Rodgers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.
Book Synopsis The World Bank Research Program, 2005-2007 by :
Download or read book The World Bank Research Program, 2005-2007 written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pocket-sized reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries includes key indicators on agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation. The volume helps establish a sound base of information to help set priorities and measure progress toward environmental sustainability goals.
