social protection,

(ii) Improving social protection systems and ensuring access for all to basic social services

RS Law on Social Protection

Social protection is more efficient than protectionism.

Katsivardakou, Theodora, Head, Department of Social Protection and Insurance

FBiH Law on Social and Child Protection

Exceptions are enumerated in the Social Protection of the Unemployment Act.

The issue of protecting the rights of workers and ensuring adequate social protection was raised.

Nicaragua has outlined the principal directions of a national policy on social protection within which a social policy on older persons will be framed.

26 The economic success of large enterprises tends to create new market opportunities for SMEs through an increase in demand for goods and services, technological spillovers, integration in supplier networks and so on.

Welfare benefits account for more than half of Germany s federal spending this year.

Currently, there are a number of mechanisms that provide social protection in various nations.

As individual savings accounts figure increasingly in social protection systems, governments need to provide adequate economic security for those who cannot benefit from such social protection schemes.

This is independent from their material status and use of any other form of social protection (i.e., mitigation of consequences of social problems).

Entities are competent for the social protection domain and they apply the following legislation

While economic pressures increase amongst an impoverished population, with insecurity exacerbated by the breakdown since 2001 of the PA security apparatus in the context of continuing occupation, the Palestinian people are expected to forge democratic institutions and transparent processes in preparing for statehood.

Nor is democracy synonymous with strong institutions, and social protection cannot substitute for an efficient labor market.

The lack of basic social protection in most countries exacerbates vulnerability.

The social protection of people, full compensation for injuries incurred by individuals affected as a consequence of the Chernobyl disaster

Centres for social work, which are organized on the territorial principle and exist in every municipality, function on the basis of the Law on Social and Children protection.

So there is little choice but to cut welfare spending, at least moderately.

In most regions, jobs created over the past decade were characterized by low productivity and lack of social protection.

FBiH Law on Bases of Social Protection of Families with Children and Protection of Civil Victims of War

Our UNICEF survey of 126 developing countries found that among the nearly one half that are reducing public expenditures, common adjustment measures include public sector wage cuts or caps, withdrawal of food subsidies, and the targeting and rationalization of already meager social protection systems.

In some nations, governments are strongly involved in the provision of social protection, following a developmentalism model, in which social protection is seen as a tool to promote economic growth.

Social protection, housing, employment, and labor are not on the ADB s new agenda.

They need social protections and safety nets to legitimize distributional outcomes.

In the system of social protection, there does not exist a division to urban and rural areas in terms accomplishment of rights.

So lower levels of social expenditure could involve only a relatively small increase in inequality and social conflict.

At the same time, high oil prices have enabled higher social spending and infrastructure investment.

Kan continues to believe that a large government, with growing social welfare expenditures, is the way to get the economy moving.

To address those issues we have promoted a rapid increase in spending for social services to put a stop to growing poverty.

In addition to the automatic decline in tax revenues and increase in social welfare spending during a recession, many nations added large spending increases and or tax cuts to try to stimulate their economies.

The national legislation recognizes the right of foreign nationals to work and the use of all institutes of social protection equally with the citizens.

(c) To ensure access by persons with disabilities and their families living in situations of poverty to assistance from the State with disability related expenses, including adequate training, counselling, financial assistance and respite care

No lesson was learned from the Asian financial crisis, which underscored the importance of social protection.

But some vulnerable countries are still struggling to finance countercyclical investment and expanded social protection services.

Weak social protection, exacerbated by long term civil conflict and the breakdown of the rule of law, magnifies the vulnerability and insecurity of poor people.

Such employment tends, however, to be insecure and characterized by a lack of social protection, especially for women migrant workers.31 While ICT has created new types of work that may potentially benefit women, such as outsourcing and home based work, there is still a wide gap between women and men in access to and usage of ICT in many countries.

Between 2006 and 2009, the government increased social spending on social welfare and education from 2.6 to 5.2 of its GDP.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has the following social welfare responsibilities medical protection cash compensation in case of illness (temporary disability to work) maternity compensation retirement compensation disabled persons compensation social welfare and child welfare.

Those documents provide a road map for social and economic development an explicit commitment to tackle inequalities in income, opportunity and power, to promote social integration and to address the issue of the social protection and welfare of children, youth, the elderly and disabled persons.

They needed to improve access to education, health care and social protection, notably by giving higher priority to the financing of key social services, resisting strong pressure to decrease government spending in favour of the private sector.

Under its program for development of this form of protection, the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy plans to enlarge the network of such centers.

Greater attention must be given to the informal economy as it does not provide social protection and may deepen gender inequalities.