Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes

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42754: Disability and poverty: a survey of World Bank poverty assessments and implications

Jeanine Braithwaite and Daniel Mont

42752: Poverty traps and social protection

Christopher Barrett, Michael Carter and Munenobu Ikegami

42471: Live longer, work longer: making it happen in the labor market

Milan Vodopivec and Primoz Dolenc

42470: Disability in Kazakhstan: an evaluation of official data

Ai-Gul S. Seitenova and Charles M. Becker

42268: Disability insurance with pre-funding and private participation: the Chilean model

Estelle James, Augusto Iglesias and Alejandra Cox Edwards

41759: The life-course perspective and social policies: an issues note

Lans Bovenberg

41541: Informality and social protection: preliminary results from pilot surveys in Bulgaria and Colombia

Franco Peracchi, Valeria Perotti and Stefano Scarpetta

41529: Social safety nets and targeted social assistance: lessons from the European experience

Chris de Neubourg, Julie Castonguay and Keetie Roelen

41439: How labor market policies can combine workers'protection with job creation: a partial review of some key issues and policy options

Gaelle Pierre and Stefano Scarpetta

41412: A review of interventions to support young workers: findings of the youth employment inventory

Gordon Betcherman, Martin Godfrey, Susana Puerto, Friederike Rother and Antoneta Stavreska

39174: Aging and demographic change in European societies: main trends and alternative policy options

Rainer Muenz

38578: The social assimilation of immigrants

Domenico de Palo, Riccardo Faini and Alessandra Venturini

37432: Comparing Individual Retirement Accounts in Asia: Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and PRC (China)

Yasue Pai

37431: Pension system reforms

Anita M. Schwartz

36237: Social pensions Part I: their role in the overall pension system

Robert Palacios and Oleksiy Sluchynsky

36175: Japan's pension reform

Junichi Sakamoto

35625: Guidance for the conduct of a social protection expenditure, performance and finance review

Karin Hitzmann, R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Robert Holzmann

35378: Complementing natural disasters management: the role of social protection

Renos Vakis

35148: Disability, poverty and schooling in developing countries: results from eleven household surveys

Deon Filmer

34844: Community-based social services: practical advice based upon lessons from outside the World Bank

Dinah Mcleod

33986: The new pensions in Kazakhstan: challenges in making the transition

Richard P. Hinz, Asta Zviniene and Anna-Marie Vilamovska

33985: Household's vulnerability to shocks in Zambia

Carlo Del Ninno and Alessandra Marini

33407: Managing public pension reserves Part II: lessons from five recent OECD initiatives

Robert Palacios

32762: Implementing means-tested welfare systems in the United States

Kathy Lindert

32759: Targeting social spending to the poor with proxy - means testing: Colombia's SISBEN system

Tarsicio Castaneda

32757: Reforming Brazil's Cadastro Unico to improve the targeting of the Bolsa Familia Program

Benedicte de la Briere and Kathy Lindert

32756: Designing and implementing household targeting systems: lessons from Latin American and The United States

Tarsicio Castaneda, Kathy Lindert, Benedicte de la Briere, Luisa Fernandez, Celia Hubert, Oswaldo Larranaya, Monica Orozco and Roxana Viquez

32755: Pension supervision: understanding international practice and country context

Richard P. Hinz and Anca Mataoanu

32754: Social security coverage in Latin America

Rafael Rofman

32753: A technology white paper on improving the efficiency of social safety net program delivery in low income countries an introduction to available and emerging mobile technologies

Mike Gallaher

32752: Aging and poverty in Africa and the role of social pensions

Nanak Kakwani and Kalanidhi Subbarao

32750: Portability regimes of pension and health care benefits for international migrants: an analysis of issues and good practices

Robert Holzmann, Johannes Koettl and Taras Chernetsky

32749: Who has the yam, and who has the knife? Social Action funds and decentralization in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda

N. Mungai Lenneiye

32748: Household vulnerability and children's activities: information needed from household surveys to measure their relationship

Diane Steele

32747: The effect of child labor on mathematics and language achievement in Latin America

Mario A. Sanchez, Peter Orazem and Victoria Gunnarsson

32746: The inter-generational persistence of child labor

Patrick Emerson and André Souza

32745: How does working as a child affect wage, income, and poverty asan adult?

Nadeem Ilahi, Peter Orazem and Guilherme Sedlacek

32744: Dynamics of child labor: labor force entry and exit in urban Brazil

Suzanne Duryea, Jasper Hoek, David Lam and Deborah Levison

32743: The responses of child labor, school enrollment, and grade repetition to the loss of parental earnings in Brazil, 1982-1999

Marcelo Cortes Neri, Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Guilherme Sedlacek and Peter Orazem

32742: Child labor, schooling, and poverty in Latin America

Guilherme Sedlacek, Suzanne Duryea, Nadeem Ilahi and Masaru Sasaki

32741: Changing patterns of child labor around the world since 1950: the roles of income growth, parental literacy, and agriculture

Victoria Gunnarsson, Peter Orazem and Guilherme Sedlacek

32740: Disability and social safety nets in developing countries

Sophie Mitra

32739: Social Funds: a review of public sector management and institutional issues

Mukhmeet Bhatia

32548: How changes in benefits entitlement affect job-finding: lessons from the slovenian experiment

Jan van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

32546: Multinational enterprises and training revisited: do international standards matter?

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Paula Castro

32545: Community-based health insurance and social protection policy

Steven R. Tabor

32544: Towards a better understanding of the nature, causes and consequences of youth labor market disadvantage: evidence for South-East Europe

Alexandre Kolev and Catherine Saget

31618: A history of the social development network in The World Bank, 1973 - 2003

Gloria Davis

31498: The political economy of targeted safety nets

Lant Pritchett

31372: Guidelines for assessing the sources of risk and vulnerability

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah, Paul B. Siegel and Karin Heitzmann