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Social policies affect people at different stages of their lives and have to address a range of issues: child-development, combining family and work responsibilities, social benefits and disability policies for periods out of work, spells of poverty (more generally income distribution), and pension policies for today's workers. In all areas, taking a gender perspective is an important for policy design.
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from 08-Feb-2010 to 09-Feb-2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the individual and household levels. This is becoming starkly evident following the onset of the current severe global economic downturn. Identification of appropriate policy responses that aim at supporting vulnerable groups are hampered by how little is known about the likely distribution of changes in (un)employment and market income...
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18-Nov-2009
This paper presents information on trends and composition of social expenditure. Gross public social expenditure on average across OECD increased from 16% of GDP in 1980 to 21% in 2005, of which public pensions (7% of GDP) and public health expenditure (6% of GDP) are the largest items. After accounting for the impact of taxation and private benefits, social expenditure (1) amounts to over 30% of GDP at factor cost in Belgium, Germany, and France and (2) ranges within a few percentage points of each other in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and the USA.
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17-Sep-2009
The current downturn is severely testing the adequacy of unemployment benefit systems as the primary safety net for job-losers and their families. This section of chapter 1 of OECD Employment Outlook 2009 considers the scope and generosity of existing income-support policies and asks whether, and how, support measures should be adapted to deal with the challenges occasioned by a severe recession.
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01-Sep-2009
Governments should invest more money on children in the first six years of their lives to reduce social inequality and help all children, especially the most vulnerable, have happier lives, according to the OECD.
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13-Aug-2009
Society at a Glance - Asia/Pacific Edition 2009 shows that in terms of income inequality in Asia, China stands out with the poorest 10% sharing only 1.6% of national income, while the top 10% on the income scale own almost 35% of the country’s wealth. This special edition of Society at a Glance looks at social trends and policy developments in Asia-Pacific countries.
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