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Identity Documents, Welfare Enhancement, and Group Empowerment in the Global South

Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

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Government intervention need for social security improvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A theoretical analysis using the principal–agent model

African populations need better support through social protection mechanisms...

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Formalizing safety nets and the requirements to obtain them: An increased role for identity documents in the Global South

Having a birth certificate is a stepping stone to acquiring an array of rights and benefits, including other documents necessary to navigate in and outside of one’s home country...

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Standards, Codes and Pension Flows
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by Helmut Reisen ​The case for mutual benefits arising from the global diversification of portfolios holds well for funded retirement savings...

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Finance and the Real Economy: Issues and Case Studies in Developing Countries

The present volume contains six papers on financial-policy issues and country experiences, presented at a joint ECLAC/UNU-WIDER/UNCTAD seminar held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, on 5-6 October 1992...

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Pension System Reforms and Savings in Latin America and Caribbean Countries with Special Reference to Chile

From the book: Finance and the Real Economy

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Social Security in Developing Countries

The term "social security" has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries -- whose populations live in great insecurity -- and is best understood as poverty alleviation...

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Public Action for Social Security: Foundations and Strategy

From the book: Social Security in Developing Countries

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