Ageing, Solidarity and Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ageing, Solidarity and Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean write by Sandra Huenchuan Navarro. This book was released on 2013. Ageing, Solidarity and Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication aims to contribute to the research, analysis and design of proposals for the social protection of older persons. It develops a new conceptual approach and uses various indicators for its assessment in the areas of social security, health and social services. All human beings must be able to avail themselves of equal rights, without discrimination, and these rights must be enforced through serious, strategic and sustainable commitments which accommodate both present and long-term challenges. Only then will it be possible to develop an approach which includes each and every citizen and contributes to their well-being and security, so that they can make full use of their capacities, regardless of their age or economic activity.
Ageing, Solidarity and Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ageing, Solidarity and Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ageing, Solidarity and Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean write by Sandra Huenchuan. This book was released on 2013. Ageing, Solidarity and Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Foreword -- Introduction -- The equality agenda and older persons -- The pivotal role of older persons in the changing demographics of Latin America and the Caribbean -- Social security, solidarity and equality -- Health, care and social protection -- The rights of older persons: Gaps and real equality -- Public institutions, ageing and protection -- Progress and priority areas of action for implementing the brasilia declaration
Achieving Effective Social Protection for All in Latin America and the Caribbean
Achieving Effective Social Protection for All in Latin America and the Caribbean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Achieving Effective Social Protection for All in Latin America and the Caribbean write by Helena Ribe. This book was released on 2010-06-22. Achieving Effective Social Protection for All in Latin America and the Caribbean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study highlights the interaction between social protection programs and labor markets in the Latin America region. It presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challenges caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old age income, for health, for unemployment risks and for anti poverty safety nets. It identifies interaction effects between SP programs and the behavioral responses of workers, firms and social protection providers, which can further undermine efforts to expand coverage, summarizing evidence from recent work across the region. It argues for a re-design of financing to eliminate cross subsidies between members of contributory programs and subsidies that effectively tax income from formal employment. Instead, it advocates well-targeted, tax-funded tapered subsidies to provide incentives to the savings efforts of low income workers, coupled with an effective safety net for the extreme poor who have no capacity to contribute to financing their own social protection arrangements. It also argues for the consolidation of programs and harmonization of benefits packages across different insurers. The book develops an overall conceptual framework and presents in-depth analysis of the main SP sectors of pensions, health, unemployment insurance and safety net transfers.
Ageing, Human Rights and Public Policies
Ageing, Human Rights and Public Policies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ageing, Human Rights and Public Policies write by Sandra Huenchuan. This book was released on 2010. Ageing, Human Rights and Public Policies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two aspects of the gradual but inexorable aging of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean are of particular concern. One is that the population is aging faster in the region than it did historically in the developed countries. The other is the regional context of unrelenting inequality, weak institutional development, the poor coverage and quality of social protection systems and the high demands placed on the family to provide security and protection. This new book from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) examines the aging phenomenon from the demographic perspective, the guaranteeing of human rights in old-age and the public policies that the countries of the region are deploying in fulfillment of agreements arising from the first and second meetings of the Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean (2003 and 2007). The book sets out the framework of rights-based social protection policies and how they apply to the particular situation of the elderly population and looks at the status of older persons in terms of income security, access to health and inclusive environments. It also examines the impacts of population aging on social protection systems - pensions, health and social services - and gives a general overview of the state of play of older persons' rights in national legislations and public policies implemented in the region. The book concludes with a summary of the main challenges that population aging poses to the building of democratic and inclusive societies and emphasizes the need to move forward in adapting policy responses to the demographic panorama of the coming decades.--Publisher's description.
Inclusive Social Protection in Latin America
Inclusive Social Protection in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inclusive Social Protection in Latin America write by Simone Cecchini (ECLAC.). This book was released on 2012. Inclusive Social Protection in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication examines the main debates under way on social protection and co-responsibility transfer programmes. It identifies the role played by these programmes and considers the conceptual elements, needs and the challenges that will have to be overcome to consolidate comprehensive social protection systems in Latin America. The authors argue that these should be solidarity-based systems that provide universal coverage and are essentially egalitarian in the guarantees established as citizens' rights. Citizenship as a whole is thus becoming part of protection policies as the region moves towards all-encompassing social policies that combine the complementary principles of targeting as the instrument and universality as the end.
