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Social Registries for Social Assistance and Beyond

open access: yes, 2017
This paper makes several contributions. First, it presents a ‘guidance note’ on the framework for Social Registries, anchoring the definition of these systems in their functions along the Delivery Chain and their social policy role as inclusion systems, while clarifying terminology in a manner that is consistent with IT standards in the discussion of ...
Leite, Phillippe   +4 more
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Devolution as a means to adequate social safety nets? [PDF]

open access: yes
Decentralisation is invariably among the recommendations that international organisations such as the World Bank make for an enhancement of social provisions, and particularly a better targeting of social assistance regimes, in Eastern and Central Europe.
De Maesschalck, Veerle   +1 more
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Welfare and Well-Being; the Treatment of Social Relationships in the Administration of Income Assistance in Ontario

open access: yesCritical Social Work, 2018
Classical economic theory treats the provisioning provided via social relationships as a hindrance to the efficient functioning of market discipline. This view of social relationships has been embodied in recent reforms in the administration of social ...
Stephanie Baker Collins
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Debt Counseling: The Challenges of Implementation Directive (EU) 2023/2225 within the Romanian Social Services Landscape

open access: yesTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
This article examines the emerging role of debt counseling within Romania’s social services in the context of Directive (EU) 2023/2225. Over-indebt­edness is increasingly recognized across Europe as both an economic and a social risk, with significant ...
Rodica Diana Apan   +1 more
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Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the role of social assistance payments (SAP or Sozialhilfe) in determining levels of life satisfaction in Germany using the SOEP 1995–2004. We find strong evidence that individuals in Germany are negatively influenced by increased SAP
Sonja C. Kassenboehmer   +1 more
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Knowledge and perception of COVID-19 vaccination in two districts of Yaoundé

open access: yesJournal of Public Health in Africa
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused considerable problems throughout the world, with an impact on both public health and economic development.
Michelle S. Djuidje Kamguia   +2 more
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Social pension or increased social assistance

open access: yesZbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke, 2011
This paper analyzes the needs and possibilities of establishing the social pension, under conditions of the existence of social assistance - a form of general social allowance. The basic parameters of the social pension are analyzed, and a short description is given regarding its treatment in the comparative law of the EU countries.
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A new approach to social assistance : Latin America's experience with conditional cash transfer programs [PDF]

open access: yes
Conditional cash transfers are a departure from more traditional approaches to social assistance, that represents an innovative, and increasingly popular channel for the delivery of social services.
Rawlings, Laura B.
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