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Informality and pension reforms in Bolivia

Part of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality

Working Paper
Informality and pension reforms in Bolivia

How social protection programmes affect work choices is a question that has been at the centre of labour economics research for decades. More recently, a scant literature has focused on the effects of social protection on work choices and informal...

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Policy diffusion, domestic politics, and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012

Part of Book The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

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Basic Old‐Age Protection in Latin America

Part of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South

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The expansion of economic protection for older adults in Latin America

Over the past two decades, many Latin American countries have expanded the economic protection of older adults by developing non-contributory pensions or making eligibility rules more flexible. These policies have addressed long-standing coverage...

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Policy diffusion, domestic politics and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998–2012

Lesotho is a small Southern African country that has introduced two national cash transfer programmes, the Old Age Pension and the Child Grant Programme. Although Lesotho has followed what has been called the ‘Southern African model’, the...

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