Philip O’keefe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4679796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip O’keefe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | O’keefe |
| SIGNATURE | O’KEEFE P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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…
China's Pension System
China is at a critical juncture in its economic transition. A comprehensive reform of its pension and social security systems is an essential element of a strategy aimed toward achieving a harmonious society and sustainable development. Among policy makers, a widely held view is that the approach to pension provision and reform efforts piloted over the last 10-15 years is insufficient to enable China's economy and population to realize its develo…
The Elderly and Old Age Support in Rural China
Although average incomes in China have risen dramatically since the 1980s, concerns are increasing that the rural elderly have not benefited from growth to the same extent as younger people and the urban elderly. Concerns about welfare of the rural elderly combine spatial and demographic issues. Large gaps exist between conditions in coastal and interior regions and between conditions in urban and rural areas of the country. In addition to differ…
A Survey of Evaluation Experience in Complex Emergencies
This article outlines the experience of evaluation in complex emergencies over the last ten years. It shows the changing roles of international organisations in responding to complex emergencies during a time when the number of emergencies, the cost of those emergencies and the population affected has risen sharply. It stresses two tendencies, namely the increasing importance of humanitarian assistance as a human right and the growth of codes of …
UNHCR's Cross Border Operation in Somalia
In 1992, faced with mass movement of Somali refugees to its camps in Kenya, UNHCR mounted a Cross Border Operation based on the concept of creating a preventive zone along the Somali border. Within this zone, a programme of Quick Impact Projects was set up, aimed at preventing new refugees and facilitating repatriation. This report describes and evaluates the operation, and concludes that despite difficulties it was effective
Anthropological Studies in Hazardous Environments
Losses arising from natural disasters continue to mount world-wide, though the most alarming social and economic dislocations are occurring in developing countries. How effectively social institutions protect against and adjust to catastrophic events is an issue which has generated a growing body of research. This paper surveys anthropological contributions to natural-disaster studies and considers their relevance for disaster mitigation policy. …
Anthropological Studies in Hazardous Environments
Losses arising from natural disasters continue to mount world-wide, though the most alarming social and economic dislocations are occurring in developing countries. How effectively social institutions protect against and adjust to catastrophic events is an issue which has generated a growing body of research. This paper surveys anthropological contributions to natural-disaster studies and considers their relevance for disaster mitigation policy. …
Anthropological Studies in Hazardous Environments
Losses arising from natural disasters continue to mount world-wide, though the most alarming social and economic dislocations are occurring in developing countries. How effectively social institutions protect against and adjust to catastrophic events is an issue which has generated a growing body of research. This paper surveys anthropological contributions to natural-disaster studies and considers their relevance for disaster mitigation policy. …
UNHCR's Cross Border Operation in Somalia
In 1992, faced with mass movement of Somali refugees to its camps in Kenya, UNHCR mounted a Cross Border Operation based on the concept of creating a preventive zone along the Somali border. Within this zone, a programme of Quick Impact Projects was set up, aimed at preventing new refugees and facilitating repatriation. This report describes and evaluates the operation, and concludes that despite difficulties it was effective
A Survey of Evaluation Experience in Complex Emergencies
This article outlines the experience of evaluation in complex emergencies over the last ten years. It shows the changing roles of international organisations in responding to complex emergencies during a time when the number of emergencies, the cost of those emergencies and the population affected has risen sharply. It stresses two tendencies, namely the increasing importance of humanitarian assistance as a human right and the growth of codes of …
The Elderly and Old Age Support in Rural China
Although average incomes in China have risen dramatically since the 1980s, concerns are increasing that the rural elderly have not benefited from growth to the same extent as younger people and the urban elderly. Concerns about welfare of the rural elderly combine spatial and demographic issues. Large gaps exist between conditions in coastal and interior regions and between conditions in urban and rural areas of the country. In addition to differ…
China's Pension System
China is at a critical juncture in its economic transition. A comprehensive reform of its pension and social security systems is an essential element of a strategy aimed toward achieving a harmonious society and sustainable development. Among policy makers, a widely held view is that the approach to pension provision and reform efforts piloted over the last 10-15 years is insufficient to enable China's economy and population to realize its develo…
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…
Political science (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Poverty (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public economics (4 works)