December 08

World Social Security Report 2010/11... ILO

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World Social Security Report 2010/11: Providing coverage in times of crisis and beyond is the first in a new series of biennial reports that aim to map social security coverage globally, to presenting various methods and approaches for assessing coverage, and to identifying gaps in coverage. Released by the International Labour Organizations (ILO), the report takes a comprehensive look at how countries are investing in social security, how they are financing it, and how effective their approaches are. Read more and down load the report from the website.

UN Pulse: Permanent Link: World Social Security Report 2010/11

May 07

Poverty And Public Policy... A Quarterly Academic Open Access Journal

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Poverty and public policy: a global journal of social security, income, aid and welfare
Poverty and public policy is a quarterly academic open access journal launched in 2009 with the support of the Policy Studies Organisation. ISSN 1944-2858. It aims to publish research articles, public policy reviews, book reviews, datasets and features covering a wide range of subjects relating to poverty, income distribution, and welfare (social security programmes) worldwide. These include social security benefits, social exclusion, welfare state policies and programmes) Users may access all materials from vol.1, 2009 via the website. It is also possible to sign up for RSS feeds to receive updates on the latest content added. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.bepress.com/pso_poverty/
April 09

Big, Not Better? Evidence From 20 Countries That Slim Governments Work Better

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Big, not better? Evidence from 20 countries that slim governments work better

This site provides free access to the full text of a 24 page pamphlet by Keith Marsden which was published by the Centre for Policy Studies in April 2008. 978-1-905389-72-8. It measures the performance of 20 industrialised nations: (Australia, Austria, Canada, Belgium, Estonia; Denmark; Hong Kong, France; Ireland; Germany; South Korea; Italy; Latvia; Netherlands; Singapore; Portugal; Slovak Republic; Sweden; United States and UK) comparing the size of their government with social, economic and security performance outcomes. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.cps.org.uk/cpsfile.asp?id=101

March 27

Social Security Programs Throughout The World: The Americas, 2007

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Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2007
Source: Social Security Administration, Office of Policy

This fourth issue in the current four-volume series of Social Security Programs Throughout the World reports on the countries of the Americas. The combined findings of this series, which also includes volumes on Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and Africa, are published at 6-month intervals over a 2-year period. Each volume highlights features of social security programs in the particular region.

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