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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Washington, DC: World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/03/15947574/right-reality-incentives-labor-markets-challenge-universal-social-protection-latin-america-caribbean http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6008 |
| Summary: | 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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