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The role of an emergency basic income: Lessons from the Latin American experience to confront the COVID‐19 pandemic

Claudia Robles, Bernardo Atuesta, Raquel Santos Garcia

International Social Security Review > 77 > 1-2 > 35 - 50

The article provides a brief overview of the social impacts of the COVID‐19 crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean, presenting how these are intertwined with a structural deficit of social protection systems. It also describes the main features of the emergency social protection responses adopted by Latin American countries that are relevant to the ongoing debate on an emergency basic income. Finally,...

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What role for emergency basic income in building and strengthening rights‐based universal social protection systems?

Ian Orton, Kroum Markov, Maya Plaza‐Stern

International Social Security Review > 77 > 1-2 > 17 - 34

During the COVID‐19 pandemic there were a great many social protection policy responses. There were also calls for emergency basic income (EBI) to be adopted as a mitigation response. However, it seems that only one country adopted an EBI. Nonetheless, EBI is likely to feature in future policy discussion and action, especially as a crisis‐mitigation tool. This has implications for the future of rights‐based...

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The role of mutuals and community‐based insurance in social health protection systems: International experience on delegated functions

Marietou Niang, Émilie Gélinas, Oumar Mallé Samb, Lou Tessier, more

International Social Security Review > 76 > 2 > 3 - 29

The institutional architecture for the provision of social health protection varies across countries, as do the actors and organizations involved. In some countries, mutual benefit societies and community‐based health insurance organizations (CBHI) play a role in this area. In the 1990s, these were promoted particularly as a means of extending social security coverage, especially in sub‐Saharan Africa...

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Social security coverage for couriers who work through digital platforms in Mexico: A role for a special scheme?

Víctor G. Carreon‐Rodríguez, Mauricio F. Coronado‐García, Miguel A. Guajardo‐Mendoza

International Social Security Review > 76 > 1 > 5 - 34

The socio‐demographic characteristics of couriers who work through digital platforms in Mexico reveal that more than 85 per cent of these workers have completed full‐time secondary education and 83 per cent of these workers are young (aged 14 to 44). However, only 25 per cent are covered for health services and social security benefits. Against this backdrop, and guided by international experience,...

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Informal workers and Kenya’s National Hospital Insurance Fund: Identifying barriers to voluntary participation

Raphael Indimuli, Nina Torm, Winnie Mitullah, Lone Riisgaard, more

International Social Security Review > 76 > 1 > 79 - 107

This article investigates the barriers to informal workers’ voluntary participation in Kenya’s national health insurance scheme – the National Hospital Insurance Fund. Based on primary data from both qualitative and quantitative methods, we find that the key determinants of enrolment include social factors, such as marital status, which create demand for insurance, and the role of informal workers’...

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Long‐term care in India: Capacity, need and future

Arunika Agarwal, David E. Bloom

International Social Security Review > 75 > 3-4 > 167 - 186

The family is the dominant player in India’s current long‐term care (LTC) system. Yet informal family‐based arrangements will be insufficient to accommodate India’s growing need for LTC due to increasing longevity and geographic mobility, the prevalence of chronic disease and disability among the elderly, and the decline of extended family living arrangements. Addressing the growing need for LTC will...

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Integrated long‐term care partnerships between government social care and health agencies in Brazil: The Belo Horizonte model

Peter Lloyd‐Sherlock, Karla Giacomin, Poliana Fialho Carvalho, Quesia Nayrane Ferreira Sousa

International Social Security Review > 75 > 3-4 > 103 - 120

The article sets out key elements of the policy agenda for enhanced integration between health and social care for older people in high‐income countries and demonstrates its wider relevance to low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). The article then explores the context for this agenda in Brazil, including growing demand for long‐term care (LTC) and current institutional arrangements. It goes on...

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Long‐term care in the context of population ageing: What role for social protection policies?

Lou Tessier, Nathalie De Wulf, Yuta Momose

International Social Security Review > 75 > 3-4 > 19 - 45

With the acceleration of population ageing, healthy ageing is becoming an imperative for all. Social protection systems have an important role to play in this endeavour. Through a life cycle approach, social protection systems can support i) the prevention of disability in old age (i.e. by addressing the social determinants of health and rehabilitation), ii) effective access to long‐term care without...

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COVID‐19 y crisis de los cuidados. Un análisis feminista de las políticas públicas en materia de trabajo doméstico y de cuidados remunerado y no remunerado

Elena CAMILLETTI, Zahrah NESBITT‐AHMED

Revista Internacional del Trabajo > 141 > 2 > 219 - 244

La actual pandemia ha puesto de manifiesto las desigualdades de género haciendo aumentar los cuidados no remunerados que realizan las mujeres y las niñas y las vulnerabilidades de las cuidadoras remuneradas, a menudo mujeres que trabajan de manera informal. A partir de una base de datos mundial sobre políticas de protección social adoptadas frente a la COVID‐19 (asistencia social, seguros sociales...

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Income protection for self‐employed and non‐standard workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Slavina Spasova, Pietro Regazzoni

International Social Security Review > 75 > 2 > 3 - 24

Based on original evidence from the European Social Policy Network (ESPN), the article investigates the extent to which self‐employed and non‐standard workers, who are less protected by “ordinary” social protection, were included in “extraordinary” income protection and job retention schemes during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom. When the crisis hit, countries...

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Universal Health Coverage and Social Health Protection: Policy relevance to health system financing reforms

Dorjsuren Bayarsaikhan, Lou Tessier, Aviva Ron

International Social Security Review > 75 > 2 > 75 - 95

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Social Health Protection (SHP) are key policy foci that cut across all dimensions of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals agenda. Understanding of these two concepts, their fundamentals and relations would improve health policy development and implementation to attain UHC and effectively protect the health of people and save lives and livelihoods. The COVID‐19...

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Factors that foster and challenge the sustainability of departmental health insurance units in Senegal

Valéry Ridde, Mouhamadou Faly Ba, Marion Guyot, Babacar Kane, more

International Social Security Review > 75 > 2 > 97 - 117

In an effort to establish universal health coverage (UHC), Senegal set up two departmental health insurance units (UDAM) to scale‐up health insurance to rural communities. Part of this innovation meant that health insurance was no longer managed by volunteers, but by professionals. Several years after the conclusion of the project in 2017 that supported their initial development, both UDAMs still...

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Egypt’s reformed social insurance system: How might design change incentivize enrolment?

Ghada Barsoum, Irene N. Selwaness

International Social Security Review > 75 > 2 > 47 - 74

In 2019, the Government of Egypt issued a new legal framework for its social insurance system. Aside from providing a unified scheme covering different groups of workers, the new regulation allowed for systemic and parametric reforms that were aimed in large part at addressing the challenge of workers’ low enrolment in social insurance, with an emphasis on informal workers. The reforms reduced the...

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Process evaluation of the Disability Allowance programme in the Maldives

Shaffa Hameed, Matthew Walsham, Lena Morgon Banks, Hannah Kuper

International Social Security Review > 75 > 1 > 79 - 105

Limited evidence on the design and implementation of social protection programmes for people with disabilities in low‐ and middle‐income countries constrains understanding of how their impacts could be improved. The Disability Allowance programme in the Maldives is a non means‐tested, monthly cash transfer targeting people with disabilities. Using qualitative methods, process evaluation was used to...

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Dilemmas when implementing conditional cash transfers: Lessons for Ghana and the rest of us

Jones Kwame Adom Danquah, Einar Øverbye

International Social Security Review > 75 > 1 > 51 - 78

Using the Ghanaian LEAP benefit programme as a case study, we investigate how administrators, service personnel and beneficiaries perceive and respond to implementation dilemmas. The investigation focuses on the LEAP benefit for caregivers of children, which is conditional on children’s school attendance, health check‐ups and vaccinations. An ethical dilemma concerns whether non‐compliance should...

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The effect of institutional factors and people’s preferences on expenditure for social protection

Vincenzo Vinci, Franziska Gassmann, Pierre Mohnen

International Social Security Review > 75 > 1 > 107 - 154

This article analyses whether and to what extent social protection expenditure varies with institutional quality and people’s preferences using cross‐section and cross‐country panel data. It uses data on expenditure taken from the International Labour Office database focusing on 52 low‐ and middle‐income countries and on 80 high‐, low‐ and middle‐income countries. The results show that both factors...

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Accommodating platform work as a new form of work in Dutch social security law: New work, same rules?

Saskia Montebovi

International Social Security Review > 74 > 3-4 > 61 - 83

In the Netherlands, the social security rights of platform workers have still not been formally defined. At present, the level of social security protection accorded to all workers is derived directly from the labour law qualification. In the continuing absence in the Netherlands of specific legislation for platform workers, specifically as regards labour law and social security law, the existing...

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Social protection and the platform economy: The anomalous approach of the French legislator

Isabelle Daugareilh

International Social Security Review > 74 > 3-4 > 85 - 109

Addressing the social protection of platform workers, the French legislator in 2016 and then in 2019 made moves to incorporate these workers into the general social security regime with regard to certain covered risks (work injury and occupational diseases), and to improve adequacy (enabling possible access to complementary coverage). However, these moves rest on radically opposed perspectives. Rather...

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Introduction: Social protection for digital platform workers in Europe

Isabelle Daugareilh

International Social Security Review > 74 > 3-4 > 5 - 12

This special issue of the International Social Security Review addresses the important topic of social protection for digital platform workers in Europe. The special issue highlights the risk that social protection systems may be largely undermined by a decline in social solidarity in favour of individualism, the partial or full privatization of social security, and a reduction in protection levels,...

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Social security for Spain’s platform workers: Self‐employed or employee status?

María Luisa Pérez Guerrero, Miguel Rodríguez‐Piñero Royo

International Social Security Review > 74 > 3-4 > 177 - 194

Studies on the social protection of platform workers in Spain have focused on the bike couriers (or “riders”) who deliver meals to customers’ homes and whose services are used by some of the best‐known platforms on the country’s social and economic scene. Most of these workers are covered by the social security scheme for self‐employed workers. However, a Supreme Court ruling issued on 25 September...

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The role of an emergency basic income: Lessons from the Latin American experience to confront the COVID‐19 pandemic

What role for emergency basic income in building and strengthening rights‐based universal social protection systems?

The role of mutuals and community‐based insurance in social health protection systems: International experience on delegated functions

Social security coverage for couriers who work through digital platforms in Mexico: A role for a special scheme?

Informal workers and Kenya’s National Hospital Insurance Fund: Identifying barriers to voluntary participation

Long‐term care in India: Capacity, need and future

Integrated long‐term care partnerships between government social care and health agencies in Brazil: The Belo Horizonte model

Long‐term care in the context of population ageing: What role for social protection policies?

COVID‐19 y crisis de los cuidados. Un análisis feminista de las políticas públicas en materia de trabajo doméstico y de cuidados remunerado y no remunerado

Income protection for self‐employed and non‐standard workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Universal Health Coverage and Social Health Protection: Policy relevance to health system financing reforms

Factors that foster and challenge the sustainability of departmental health insurance units in Senegal

Egypt’s reformed social insurance system: How might design change incentivize enrolment?

Process evaluation of the Disability Allowance programme in the Maldives

Dilemmas when implementing conditional cash transfers: Lessons for Ghana and the rest of us

The effect of institutional factors and people’s preferences on expenditure for social protection

Accommodating platform work as a new form of work in Dutch social security law: New work, same rules?

Social protection and the platform economy: The anomalous approach of the French legislator

Introduction: Social protection for digital platform workers in Europe

Social security for Spain’s platform workers: Self‐employed or employee status?

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