Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes

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25510: An overview of labor markets world-wide: key trends and major policy issues

Gordon Betcherman

25507: Child labor handbook

Alessandro Cigno, Furio Rosati and Zafiris Tzannatos

25300: Incentives and the role of institutions in the provision of social safety nets

Chris de Neubourg

25299: Subsidies as a social safety net: effectiveness and challenges

Harold Alderman

25295: The World Bank and children: a review of activities

Iqbal Kaur and Zafiris Tzannatos

24675: Czech pensionsystem: challenges and reform options

Esperanza Lasagabaster, Roberto Rocha and Patrick Wiese

24661: Guide for task teams on procurement procedures used in social funds

Jorge A. Cavera Uriona

24660: Is child work necessary?

Sonia Bhalotra

24089: Orphans and other vulnerable children: what role for social protection ?

Levine, Anthony [editor], Eduardo Doryan, Susan Hunter, Kalanidhi Subbarao, Christopher Walker, Matthew Lukoda, Assefaw Tekeste Ghebrekidan, Florence Baingana, Heather Macleon, Birger Frederiksen, Christene Kamwendo, Joe Muwonge, Rhoi Wangile, Namposya Serpell, Trina Haque, Mark Lorey, Mike Wessells, Matthew Hodge, Shanta Devarajan, Peter McDermott, Sarah Browsky, Laelia Gilborn, Margaret Grosh, Doreen Mulenga, Ian MacLeod, Mamphele Ramphele and Mark Connolly

24088: Child farm labour: the wealth paradox

Sonia Bhalotra and Christopher Heady

24087: Measuring and analyzing child labor: methodological issues

Bjorne Grimsrud

24086: Family - controlled child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa - a survey of research

Jen Christopher Andvig

24084: Unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance: a comparison

Wayne Vroman

24083: Does eurosclerosis matter ? - institutional reform and labor market performance in Central and Eastern European countries in the 1990s

Michelle Riboud, Carolina Sanchez-Paramo and Carlos Silva-Jauregui

24081: Child labor, nutrition, and education in rural India: an economic analysis of parental choice and policy options

Alessandro Cigno, Furio Rosati and Zafiris Tzannatos

24080: Social protection and the informal sector in developing countries: challenges and opportunities

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and S.V. Sethuraman

24079: Chile's pension reform after twenty years

Rodrigo Acuna R. and Augusto Iglesias P.

24078: Labor market regulation: international experience in promoting employment and social protection

Gordon Betcherman, Amy Luinstra and Makoto Ogawa

23308: The informal sector revisited: a synthesis across space and time

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch, R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Dhushyanth Raju

23307: Social services delivery through community-based projects

Dinah McLeod and Maurizia Tovo

23306: Earnings inequality in transition economies of Central Europetrends and patterns during the 1990s

Jan J. Rutkowski

23305: Viewing microinsurance as a social risk management instrument

Paul B. Siegel, Jeffrey Alwang and R. Sudharshan Canagarajah

23304: Vulnerability: a view from different disciplines

Jeffrey Alwang, Paul B. Siegel and Steen L. Jorgensen

23303: Individual accounts as social insurance: a World Bank perspective

Robert Holzmann and Robert Palacios

23302: Regulating private pension funds'structure, performance, and investments: cross-country evidence

P.S. Srinivas, Edward Whitehouse and Juan Yermo

23301: The World Bank and the provision of assistance to redundant workers: experience with enterprise restructuring and future directions

Yi Chen

23162: Operating instructions included: a review of social investment fund operations manuals

Juliana Weissman

23161: Risk and vulnerability: the forward looking role of social protection in a globalizing world

Robert Holzmann

23160: Australia's mandatory retirement saving policy: a view from the new millennium

Hazel Bateman and John Piggott

23159: Annuity markets and benefit design in multi-pillar pension schemes: experience and lessons from four Latin American countries

Robert Palacios and Rafael Rofman

23156: Kazakhstan: an ambitious pension reform

Emily S. Andrews

23155: Long-term consequences of an innovative redundancy - retraining project: the Austrian Steel Foundation

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

23146: Community based targeting mechanisms for social safety nets

Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane

23145: Disability and work in Poland

Tom Hoopengardner

23144: Do market wages influence child labor and child schooling?

Jackline Wahba

23143: Including the most vulnerable: social funds and people with disabilities

Pamela Dudzik and Dinah Mcleod

23142: Pension reform and public information in Poland

Agnieszka Chlon

23141: How poor are the old? a survey of evidence from 44 countries

Edward Whitehouse

23140: Administrative charges for funded pensions: an international comparison and assessment

Edward Whitehouse

23089: The pension system in Argentina - six years after the reform

Rafael Rofman

23088: Pension systems in East Asia and the Pacific: challenges and opportunities

Robert Holzmann, Ian W. Mac Arthur and Yvonne Sin

23087: Survey of disability projects: the experience of SHIA, Swedish International Aid for Solidarity and Humanity

Kaj Nordquist

23086: The Swedish pension reform model: framework and issues

Edward Palmer

23071: Ratcheting labor standards: regulation for continuous improvement in the global workplace

Charles Sabel, Dara O'Rourke and Archon Fung

23070: Can investments in emerging markets help to solve the aging problem ?

Robert Holzmann

23068: Disability issues, trends and recommendations for the World Bank

Robert L. Metts

23067: Reform options for pay-as-you-go public pension systems

Sheetal Chand and Albert Jaeger

23030: What can be done about child labor ? - An overview of recent research and its implications for designing programs to reduce child labor

Bjorne Grimsrud

23029: Measuring and analyzing child labor: methodological issues

Bjorne Grimsrud

21612: Worker reallocation during Estonia's transition to market: how efficient and how equitable?

Milan Vodopivec