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Identity Documents, Welfare Enhancement, and Group Empowerment in the Global SouthPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Identity Legal empowerment WelfareWorking Paper
Government intervention need for social security improvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A theoretical analysis using the principal–agent modelAfrican populations need better support through social protection mechanisms...
Social security Pensions ContractsWorking Paper
Formalizing safety nets and the requirements to obtain them: An increased role for identity documents in the Global SouthHaving 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...
Pensions Transfer paymentsBlog
Standards, Codes and Pension Flows
by Helmut Reisen The case for mutual benefits arising from the global diversification of portfolios holds well for funded retirement savings...
Accounting Financial institutions Institutional economicsBook
Finance and the Real Economy: Issues and Case Studies in Developing CountriesThe 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...
Banks and banking Finance PensionsBook Chapter
Pension System Reforms and Savings in Latin America and Caribbean Countries with Special Reference to ChileFrom the book: Finance and the Real Economy
Banks and banking Finance PensionsBook
Social Security in Developing CountriesThe term "social security" has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries -- whose populations live in great insecurity -- and is best understood as poverty alleviation...
Pensions Public welfare Social security