Ugo Gentilini
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 204304 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ugo Gentilini |
| NOMBRES | Ugo |
| APELLIDO | Gentilini |
| FIRMA | GENTILINI U |
| AFILIACIONES | World Food Programme |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Diversity within universality
The response to the global COVID‐19 pandemic has prompted a surge in short‐term universal cash transfer programmes around the world. Notably, East Asian high‐income economies have been at the forefront of these initiatives. While the innovative nature of these universal cash injections has been emphasized, there is limited documentation regarding their characteristics, prospects, and underlying motivations. This article sheds light on the domesti…
Tracking Global Social Protection Responses to Price Shocks
Between December 2022 and May 2023, the number of social protection and other related measures announced or implemented in response to inflation rose by about 31%. The latest tally includes 1,333 responses across 178 economies. Overall, subsidies claim 33% of such measures and take four main forms (fuel, food, fertilizers, and various fee subsidies). Social assistance accounts for 31% of responses, 77% of which is provided in the form of cash tra…
Universal Basic Income Programs
Using microsimulations this paper analyzes the poverty and tax implications of replacing current transfers and subsidies by a budget-neutral (no change in the fiscal deficit) universal basic income program (UBI) in Brazil, Chile, India, Russia, and South Africa. We consider three UBI transfers with increasing levels of generosity and identify scenarios in which the poor are no worse off than in the baseline scenario of existing social transfers. …
More evidence on cash transfers and child nutritional outcomes
Social Protection and Jobs Responses to Covid-19
Some key finds from this "living paper" include : As of April 23, 2020, a total of 151 countries (18 more since last week) have planned, introduced or adapted 684 social protection measures in response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus). This is a ten-fold increase in measures since the first edition of this living paper (March 20). New countries include Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belarus, Bermuda, Brunei, Chad, Gre…
Exploring Universal Basic Income
The book’s content benefited enormously from discussions with Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Asad Alam, Nicholas Barr, Christian Bodewig, Maurizio Bussolo, Joe Chrisp, Aline Coudouel, Shantayanan Devarajan, Simeon Djankov, Louise Fox, Marcelo Giugale, Kathy Lindert, Luke Martinelli, Rinku Murgai, Farhad Nili, Philip O’Keefe, Ian Orton, Berk Özler, Truman Packard, Robert Palacios, Aleksandra Posarac, Dhushyanth Raju, Martin Rama, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Indh…
Conclusions and Final Considerations
Reiterates the key principle of poverty prevention in social insurance policies and asserts that any other income redistribution objectives should be explicitly and transparently pursued with instruments financed from broad-based taxes. Financing the proposed protections can be achieved in many countries by reallocating existing expenditures and redeploying resources spent on broad price subsidies; in others, revenues may have to increase. Techno…
Labor Policy for a Diverse and Diversifying World of Work
Emphasizes the importance of new ideas to motivate and inform a new generation of labor market policies better suited to a diverse and diversifying world of work. Drivers of disruption—technological change and economic integration, in particular—are challenging the primacy of the archetypal standard employer-employee relationship as a formal institution, and social, demographic, and climate changes are reconfiguring the composition of the workfor…
Charting the Course for a Challenging Transition
Identifies possible fiscal and technological options for reform-minded governments and addresses the constraints imposed by legacy commitments of the risk-sharing institutions currently in place. The most formidable among these constraints is the fiscal cost of covering contingent liabilities of employment-based social insurance plans. Proposals for financing an expanded set of guaranteed protections must launch from a holistic fiscal perspective…
The Conceptual Underpinnings of Risk-Sharing Policy and the Changing Nature of Losses
Presents a framework drawn from the main conceptual underpinnings of risk-sharing policy and explains how, when applied to the drivers of disruption, new inferences can be drawn for policy makers. Tools used in actuarial and public economics illustrate policy-relevant insights about the nature of a loss, how it is best covered, and how much to expect of the private sector. Market failures on the supply and demand sides motivate policy interventio…
Prevailing Risk-Sharing Policies and Drivers of Disruption in the World of Work
Chronicles the significance of the standard employment relationship as the legal foundation of the risk-sharing policy apparatus. In most low- and middle-income countries in the second decade of the twenty-first century, the segment of people whose work resembles that standard and who are thus covered by statutory worker protection and social insurance remains very small, with policy, institutional, and administrative coordination poor or absent …
Overview
Explains the importance of a comprehensive policy package of poverty prevention and protection against livelihood shocks with a publicly financed, guaranteed-minimum risk-pooling mechanism at its core and additional layers of mandated, nudged, and wholly voluntary insurance. Effective risk-sharing policies are foundational to building equity, resilience, and opportunity, to augment people’s options for managing shocks to their livelihoods, and to…
From an Employment-Based to a Comprehensive Model of Risk Sharing
Argues for a comprehensive policy package of protection from shocks and losses that places little reliance on where or how people work. The package has a publicly financed guaranteed-minimum risk-pooling mechanism at its core, along with additional layers of mandated, nudged, and wholly voluntary market insurance. To be broadly applicable in a diverse set of countries, the proposal gives greater weight to policy objectives than to specific instru…
Protecting All
This white paper focusses on the policy interventions made to help people manage risk, uncertainty and the losses from events whose impacts are channeled primarily through the labor market. The objectives of the white paper are: to scrutinize the relevance and effects of prevailing risk-sharing policies in low- and middle-income countries; take account of how global drivers of disruption shape and diversify how people work; in light of this diver…
Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement
Effective social protection is increasingly as essential to supporting affected populations in situations of protracted instability and displacement. Despite the growing use of social protection in these settings, there is comparatively little rigorous research on what works, for whom, and why. This special issue contributes by adding seven high-quality studies that raise substantially our understanding of the role of social protection in fragile…
Protecting All
Human(itarian) Capital?
Governments in low and middle-income countries are increasingly investing in social protection, and also address many of their own people’s ‘humanitarian’ needs themselves. For their international partners, who may have an important role in filling gaps when household needs exceed national capacity to meet them, support for the strengthening of national systems, combined with a shift from short-run to more durable approaches, is becoming a unifyi…
Should I Stay or Should I Go
The paper reviews the evidence on a \n "hot" and yet underexplored question -- that is, \n whether and how social assistance programs (especially cash \n transfers) affect domestic and international migration. Out \n an initial sample of 269 papers, 10 relevant empirical \n studies examine the question. The programs are classified \n into three clusters: (i) social assistance that implicitly \n deters migration centering on place-based programs, …
World Development Report 2019
Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. New ways of production are adopted, markets expand, and societies evolve. But some changes provoke more attention than others, in part due to the vast uncertainty involved in making predictions about the future. The 2019 World Development Report will study how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Technological progress disrupts existing systems. A new so…
National or International Poverty Lines or Both? Setting Goals for Income Poverty after 2015
Debate on what should follow the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2015 onwards has mushroomed. A focus on “ending” poverty (however defined) is likely to form a central part of the future framework. This paper discusses MDG 1, income poverty. Our paper is a commentary written to contribute to the set of papers in this special issue. In this paper we argue that there are, alongside valid rationales, important critiques of the targets an…
Enhancing Nutrition
Social protection 2.0
How are we doing on poverty and hunger reduction? A new measure of country performance
Cash-based Responses in Emergencies
Food Transfers and Food Insecurity
Social protection 2.0
How are we doing on poverty and hunger reduction? A new measure of country performance
Diversity within universality
The response to the global COVID‐19 pandemic has prompted a surge in short‐term universal cash transfer programmes around the world. Notably, East Asian high‐income economies have been at the forefront of these initiatives. While the innovative nature of these universal cash injections has been emphasized, there is limited documentation regarding their characteristics, prospects, and underlying motivations. This article sheds light on the domesti…
National or International Poverty Lines or Both? Setting Goals for Income Poverty after 2015
Debate on what should follow the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2015 onwards has mushroomed. A focus on “ending” poverty (however defined) is likely to form a central part of the future framework. This paper discusses MDG 1, income poverty. Our paper is a commentary written to contribute to the set of papers in this special issue. In this paper we argue that there are, alongside valid rationales, important critiques of the targets an…
Enhancing Nutrition
Cash-based Responses in Emergencies
Food Transfers and Food Insecurity
How are we doing on poverty and hunger reduction? A new measure of country performance
Social protection 2.0
Enhancing Nutrition
National or International Poverty Lines or Both? Setting Goals for Income Poverty after 2015
Debate on what should follow the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2015 onwards has mushroomed. A focus on “ending” poverty (however defined) is likely to form a central part of the future framework. This paper discusses MDG 1, income poverty. Our paper is a commentary written to contribute to the set of papers in this special issue. In this paper we argue that there are, alongside valid rationales, important critiques of the targets an…
Human(itarian) Capital?
Governments in low and middle-income countries are increasingly investing in social protection, and also address many of their own people’s ‘humanitarian’ needs themselves. For their international partners, who may have an important role in filling gaps when household needs exceed national capacity to meet them, support for the strengthening of national systems, combined with a shift from short-run to more durable approaches, is becoming a unifyi…
Should I Stay or Should I Go
The paper reviews the evidence on a \n "hot" and yet underexplored question -- that is, \n whether and how social assistance programs (especially cash \n transfers) affect domestic and international migration. Out \n an initial sample of 269 papers, 10 relevant empirical \n studies examine the question. The programs are classified \n into three clusters: (i) social assistance that implicitly \n deters migration centering on place-based programs, …
World Development Report 2019
Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. New ways of production are adopted, markets expand, and societies evolve. But some changes provoke more attention than others, in part due to the vast uncertainty involved in making predictions about the future. The 2019 World Development Report will study how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Technological progress disrupts existing systems. A new so…
Conclusions and Final Considerations
Reiterates the key principle of poverty prevention in social insurance policies and asserts that any other income redistribution objectives should be explicitly and transparently pursued with instruments financed from broad-based taxes. Financing the proposed protections can be achieved in many countries by reallocating existing expenditures and redeploying resources spent on broad price subsidies; in others, revenues may have to increase. Techno…
Labor Policy for a Diverse and Diversifying World of Work
Emphasizes the importance of new ideas to motivate and inform a new generation of labor market policies better suited to a diverse and diversifying world of work. Drivers of disruption—technological change and economic integration, in particular—are challenging the primacy of the archetypal standard employer-employee relationship as a formal institution, and social, demographic, and climate changes are reconfiguring the composition of the workfor…
Charting the Course for a Challenging Transition
Identifies possible fiscal and technological options for reform-minded governments and addresses the constraints imposed by legacy commitments of the risk-sharing institutions currently in place. The most formidable among these constraints is the fiscal cost of covering contingent liabilities of employment-based social insurance plans. Proposals for financing an expanded set of guaranteed protections must launch from a holistic fiscal perspective…
The Conceptual Underpinnings of Risk-Sharing Policy and the Changing Nature of Losses
Presents a framework drawn from the main conceptual underpinnings of risk-sharing policy and explains how, when applied to the drivers of disruption, new inferences can be drawn for policy makers. Tools used in actuarial and public economics illustrate policy-relevant insights about the nature of a loss, how it is best covered, and how much to expect of the private sector. Market failures on the supply and demand sides motivate policy interventio…
Prevailing Risk-Sharing Policies and Drivers of Disruption in the World of Work
Chronicles the significance of the standard employment relationship as the legal foundation of the risk-sharing policy apparatus. In most low- and middle-income countries in the second decade of the twenty-first century, the segment of people whose work resembles that standard and who are thus covered by statutory worker protection and social insurance remains very small, with policy, institutional, and administrative coordination poor or absent …
Overview
Explains the importance of a comprehensive policy package of poverty prevention and protection against livelihood shocks with a publicly financed, guaranteed-minimum risk-pooling mechanism at its core and additional layers of mandated, nudged, and wholly voluntary insurance. Effective risk-sharing policies are foundational to building equity, resilience, and opportunity, to augment people’s options for managing shocks to their livelihoods, and to…
From an Employment-Based to a Comprehensive Model of Risk Sharing
Argues for a comprehensive policy package of protection from shocks and losses that places little reliance on where or how people work. The package has a publicly financed guaranteed-minimum risk-pooling mechanism at its core, along with additional layers of mandated, nudged, and wholly voluntary market insurance. To be broadly applicable in a diverse set of countries, the proposal gives greater weight to policy objectives than to specific instru…
Protecting All
This white paper focusses on the policy interventions made to help people manage risk, uncertainty and the losses from events whose impacts are channeled primarily through the labor market. The objectives of the white paper are: to scrutinize the relevance and effects of prevailing risk-sharing policies in low- and middle-income countries; take account of how global drivers of disruption shape and diversify how people work; in light of this diver…
Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement
Effective social protection is increasingly as essential to supporting affected populations in situations of protracted instability and displacement. Despite the growing use of social protection in these settings, there is comparatively little rigorous research on what works, for whom, and why. This special issue contributes by adding seven high-quality studies that raise substantially our understanding of the role of social protection in fragile…
Protecting All
Social Protection and Jobs Responses to Covid-19
Some key finds from this "living paper" include : As of April 23, 2020, a total of 151 countries (18 more since last week) have planned, introduced or adapted 684 social protection measures in response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus). This is a ten-fold increase in measures since the first edition of this living paper (March 20). New countries include Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belarus, Bermuda, Brunei, Chad, Gre…
Exploring Universal Basic Income
The book’s content benefited enormously from discussions with Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Asad Alam, Nicholas Barr, Christian Bodewig, Maurizio Bussolo, Joe Chrisp, Aline Coudouel, Shantayanan Devarajan, Simeon Djankov, Louise Fox, Marcelo Giugale, Kathy Lindert, Luke Martinelli, Rinku Murgai, Farhad Nili, Philip O’Keefe, Ian Orton, Berk Özler, Truman Packard, Robert Palacios, Aleksandra Posarac, Dhushyanth Raju, Martin Rama, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Indh…
More evidence on cash transfers and child nutritional outcomes
Tracking Global Social Protection Responses to Price Shocks
Between December 2022 and May 2023, the number of social protection and other related measures announced or implemented in response to inflation rose by about 31%. The latest tally includes 1,333 responses across 178 economies. Overall, subsidies claim 33% of such measures and take four main forms (fuel, food, fertilizers, and various fee subsidies). Social assistance accounts for 31% of responses, 77% of which is provided in the form of cash tra…
Universal Basic Income Programs
Using microsimulations this paper analyzes the poverty and tax implications of replacing current transfers and subsidies by a budget-neutral (no change in the fiscal deficit) universal basic income program (UBI) in Brazil, Chile, India, Russia, and South Africa. We consider three UBI transfers with increasing levels of generosity and identify scenarios in which the poor are no worse off than in the baseline scenario of existing social transfers. …
Diversity within universality
The response to the global COVID‐19 pandemic has prompted a surge in short‐term universal cash transfer programmes around the world. Notably, East Asian high‐income economies have been at the forefront of these initiatives. While the innovative nature of these universal cash injections has been emphasized, there is limited documentation regarding their characteristics, prospects, and underlying motivations. This article sheds light on the domesti…
Economics (16 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Business (9 obras) · Poverty (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (8 obras) · Public economics (8 obras) · Economic growth (7 obras)