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63930: Strengthening governance of social safety nets in East Asia

Sara Giannozzi and Asmeen Khan

63929: International portability of health-cost coverage: concepts and experience

Martin Werding and Stuart McLennan

63418: Welfare and distributionalimpacts of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program

Rashiel Velarde and Luisa Fernandez

63401: Liberia's Cash for Work Temporary Employment Project: responding to crisis in low income, fragile countries

Colin Andrews, Prospere Backiny-Yetna, Emily Garin, Emily Weedon, Quentin Wodon and Giuseppe Zampaglione

63230: Employability and productivity among older workers: apolicy framework and evidence from Latin America

Edmundo Murrugarra

62984: Cash transfers, children and the crisis: protecting current and future investments

Ariel Fiszbein, Dena Ringold and Santhosh Srinivasan

62879: Overview of the Philippines'Conditional Cash Transfer Program: the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya)

Luisa Fernandez and Rosechin Olfindo

62726: Severance pay programs around the world: history, rationale, status, and reforms

Robert Holzmann, Yann Pouget, Milan Vodopivec and Michael Weber

62725: Portability of pension, health, and other social benefits: facts, concepts, issues

Robert Holzmann and Johannes Koettl

62564: Disability and poverty in developing countries: a snapshot from the world health survey

Sophie Mitra, Aleksandra Posarac and Brandon Vick

61290: Advancing adult learning in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Christian Bodewig and Sarojini Hirshleifer

60234: Building governance and anti-corruption in the Philippines'conditional cash transfer program

Jehan Arulpragasam, Luisa Patricia Fernandez Delgado, Yasuhiko Matsuda, Rosechin Olfindo Hamanaka, Matthew Stephens, Jehan Arulpragasam, Luisa Patricia Fernandez Delgado, Yasuhiko Matsuda, Rosechin Olfindo Hamanaka and Matthew Stephens

60084: Results readiness in social protection and labor operations

Laura Rawlings, Maddalena Honorati, Gloria Rubio and Julie Van Domelen

60083: Results readiness in social protection and labor operations: technical guidance notes for social service delivery projects

Julie Van Domelen

60082: Results readiness in social protection and labor operations: technical guidance notes for social safety nets task teams

Gloria Rubio

60081: Results readiness in social protection and labor operations: technical guidance notes for social funds taskteams

Julie Van Domelen

60080: Results readiness in social protection and labor operations: technical guidance notes for labor markets task teams

Maddalena Honorati

59699: Natural disasters: what is the role for social safety nets?

Larissa Pelham, Edward Clay and Tim Braunholz

59565: North-South knowledgesharing on incentive-based conditional cash transfer programs

Lawrence Aber and Laura B. Rawlings

56501: Bringing financial literacy and education to low and middle income countries: the need to review, adjust, and extend current wisdom

Robert Holzmann

56092: Disability and international cooperation and development: a review of policies and practices

Janet Lord, Aleksandra Posarac, Marco Nicoli, Karen Peffley, Charlotte Mcclain-Nhlapo and Mary Keogh

55674: Key characteristics of employment regulation in the Middle East and North Africa

Diego Angel-Urdinola and Arvo Kuddo

55673: Non-public provision of active labor market programs in Arab- Mediterranean countries: an inventory of youth programs

Diego Angel-Urdinola, Amina Semlali and Stefanie Brodmann

54967: The investment in job training: why are SMEs lagging so much behind?

Rita Almeida and Reyes Aterido

53889: Toolkit on tackling error, fraud and corruption in social protection programs

Christian van Stolk and Emil D. Tesliuc

53696: The Korean case study: past experience and new trends in training policies

Young-Sun Ra and Kyung Woo Shim

52999: Labor market policy research for developing countries: recent examples from the literature - what do we know and what should we know?

Maria Sanchez Puerta

52919: Rethinking survivor benefits

Estelle James

52449: Migration pressures and immigration policies: new evidence on the selection of migrants

Johanna Avato

52448: Ex-ante methods to assess the impact of social insurance policies on labor supply with an application to Brazil

David Robalino, Eduardo Zylberstajn, Helio Zylberstajn and Luís Afonso

52447: How much do Latin American pension programs promise to pay back?

Alvaro Forteza and Guzmán Ourens

52446: Work histories and pension entitlements in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

Alvaro Forteza, Ignacio Apella, Eduardo Fajnzylber, Carlos Grushka, Ianina Rossi and Graciela Sanroman

52445: Indexing pensions

John Piggott and Renuka Sane

52188: Towards comprehensive training

Jean Fares and Olga Susana Puerto

52187: A review of national training funds

Richard Johanson

52186: Pre-employment vocational education and training in Korea

ChangKyun Chae and Jaeho Chung

51698: Labor laws in Eastern European and Central Asian countries: minimum norms and practices

Arvo Kuddo

51254: Openness and technological innovation in East Asia: have they increased the demand for skills?

Rita Almeida

51253: Employment services and active labor market programs in Eastern European and Central Asian countries

Arvo Kuddo

51251: Productivity increases in SMEs: with special emphasis on in-service training of workers in Korea

Kye Lee Woo

50671: Firing cost and firm size: a study of Sri Lanka's severance pay system

Babatunde Abidoye, Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec

50670: Building a targeting system for Bangladesh based on proxy means testing

Iffath A. Sharif

50320: Savings for unemployment in good or bad times: options for developing countries

David Robalino, Milan Vodopivec and Andras Bodor

49802: Human trafficking, modern day slavery, and economic exploitation

Johannes Koettl

49174: Social protection for migrants from the Pacific Islands in Australia and New Zealand

Geoff Woolford

49173: Unemployment insurance savings accounts in Latin America: overview and assessment

Ana Ferrer and W. Craig Riddell

49172: Definitions, good practices, and global estimates on the status of social protection for international migrants

Johanna Avato, Johannes Koettl and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

49171: Regional overview of social protection for non-citizens in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Marius Olivier

49170: Introducing unemployment insurance to developing countries

Milan Vodopivec

49168: Social protection for refugees and asylum seekers in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)

Mpho Makhema