Wouter Van Ginneken
Biographic Data
| ID | 817601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wouter Van Ginneken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wouter |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Ginneken |
| SIGNATURE | VAN GINNEKEN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Labour Organization |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social Protection for Migrant Workers: National and International Policy Challenges
In the current global context, many migrant workers, and in particular women and irregular workers, are not - or are very inadequately - covered by social security and other social protection programmes. Current human rights standards related to migrant workers and families have so far had little impact on this situation. This article first examines various national approaches to extending social security to migrant workers in low-, middle- and h…
Civil society and the social protection floor
Civil society wholeheartedly supports the concept of social protection floors and, in particular, the adoption of the ILO Recommendation concerning national floors of social protection, 2012 ( N o. 202). The implementation of social protection floors will be a great step forward towards the reduction of poverty and inequality as well as to the empowerment of people worldwide. The civil society movement is convinced that the rights‐based approach …
Social Protection, the Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights
This article is an attempt to outline the possible implications of a rights-based approach to social protection and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It starts with some remarks on the role of social protection floors and human rights in a new global social contract. It then provides a framework as to how the rights-based approach can be operationalised – for four main human rights principles and using structural, process and output indica…
Social security coverage extension: A review of recent evidence
This article reports the findings of 13 studies undertaken as part of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) project on “Examining the existing knowledge on coverage extension”. It reviews recent evidence that highlights how cash benefits and health‐care coverage, financed on the basis of contributions or tax revenue or both, can be extended and maintained in low‐, middle‐ and high‐income countries. The article also highlights a num…
Social Security and the Global Socio-economic Floor: Towards a Human Rights-based Approach
This article shows that the commitment towards economic and social human rights, including the right to social security, will provide a strong force towards realizing the global socio-economic floor. The right to social security has become realizable in a growing number of countries that have focused on the extension of social security coverage. This article shows that a global social security floor is affordable, including in low-income countrie…
Extending social security coverage: Concepts, global trends and policy issues
This article reviews the experience of some key low‐, middle‐ and high‐income countries that have successfully extended social security coverage or are in the process of doing so. It shows that a strong and competent State is a first requirement for the extension of social security. It also examines a variety of coverage indicators that can help national and international policymakers to focus their efforts on the extension of social security. Fi…
The impact of tax‐financed pensions on poverty reduction in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay
In many Latin American countries, tax‐financed pensions (TFPs) have expanded, mainly resulting from growing informalization of employment and stagnating or declining pension insurance coverage. In the five countries examined in this article, TFPs have generally been effective in reducing poverty and indigence. In Brazil rural social assistance pensions cut the incidence of destitution among poor older people by 95 per cent. In Chile TFPs consider…
Extending social security: Policies for developing countries
Social Security for the Informal Sector: A New Challenge for the Developing Countries
Informal sector workers constitute a large and increasing part of the labour force in most developing countries. Many of them are not able or willing to contribute a significant percentage of their incomes to finance formal sector social insurance benefits that do not meet their priority needs. Therefore, informal sector workers themselves need to (and have) set up health and other social insurance schemes that better meet their needs and contrib…
Appropriate Products, Employment and Technology: Case-Studies on Consumer Choice and Basic Needs in Developing Countries
Socio-economic Groups and Income Distribution in Mexico
In almost all Latin American semi-industrialised countries the high rate of economic growth over the past 25 years has been accompanied by an increase in income inequality. To a certain extent this is inevitable because productivity in the so-called modern sectors tends to rise faster than in traditional sectors. On the other hand, effective policies do exist to reduce the inequality of income distribution or at least to keep it from becoming mor…
Some methods of poverty analysis: An application to Iranian data, 1975–1976
Social Security for the Informal Sector: A New Challenge for the Developing Countries
Informal sector workers constitute a large and increasing part of the labour force in most developing countries. Many of them are not able or willing to contribute a significant percentage of their incomes to finance formal sector social insurance benefits that do not meet their priority needs. Therefore, informal sector workers themselves need to (and have) set up health and other social insurance schemes that better meet their needs and contrib…
Social Protection for Migrant Workers: National and International Policy Challenges
In the current global context, many migrant workers, and in particular women and irregular workers, are not - or are very inadequately - covered by social security and other social protection programmes. Current human rights standards related to migrant workers and families have so far had little impact on this situation. This article first examines various national approaches to extending social security to migrant workers in low-, middle- and h…
Extending social security coverage: Concepts, global trends and policy issues
This article reviews the experience of some key low‐, middle‐ and high‐income countries that have successfully extended social security coverage or are in the process of doing so. It shows that a strong and competent State is a first requirement for the extension of social security. It also examines a variety of coverage indicators that can help national and international policymakers to focus their efforts on the extension of social security. Fi…
Social Security and the Global Socio-economic Floor: Towards a Human Rights-based Approach
This article shows that the commitment towards economic and social human rights, including the right to social security, will provide a strong force towards realizing the global socio-economic floor. The right to social security has become realizable in a growing number of countries that have focused on the extension of social security coverage. This article shows that a global social security floor is affordable, including in low-income countrie…
The impact of tax‐financed pensions on poverty reduction in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay
In many Latin American countries, tax‐financed pensions (TFPs) have expanded, mainly resulting from growing informalization of employment and stagnating or declining pension insurance coverage. In the five countries examined in this article, TFPs have generally been effective in reducing poverty and indigence. In Brazil rural social assistance pensions cut the incidence of destitution among poor older people by 95 per cent. In Chile TFPs consider…
Some methods of poverty analysis: An application to Iranian data, 1975–1976
Social Protection, the Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights
This article is an attempt to outline the possible implications of a rights-based approach to social protection and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It starts with some remarks on the role of social protection floors and human rights in a new global social contract. It then provides a framework as to how the rights-based approach can be operationalised – for four main human rights principles and using structural, process and output indica…
Some methods of poverty analysis: An application to Iranian data, 1975–1976
Socio-economic Groups and Income Distribution in Mexico
In almost all Latin American semi-industrialised countries the high rate of economic growth over the past 25 years has been accompanied by an increase in income inequality. To a certain extent this is inevitable because productivity in the so-called modern sectors tends to rise faster than in traditional sectors. On the other hand, effective policies do exist to reduce the inequality of income distribution or at least to keep it from becoming mor…
Appropriate Products, Employment and Technology: Case-Studies on Consumer Choice and Basic Needs in Developing Countries
Social Security for the Informal Sector: A New Challenge for the Developing Countries
Informal sector workers constitute a large and increasing part of the labour force in most developing countries. Many of them are not able or willing to contribute a significant percentage of their incomes to finance formal sector social insurance benefits that do not meet their priority needs. Therefore, informal sector workers themselves need to (and have) set up health and other social insurance schemes that better meet their needs and contrib…
Extending social security: Policies for developing countries
The impact of tax‐financed pensions on poverty reduction in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay
In many Latin American countries, tax‐financed pensions (TFPs) have expanded, mainly resulting from growing informalization of employment and stagnating or declining pension insurance coverage. In the five countries examined in this article, TFPs have generally been effective in reducing poverty and indigence. In Brazil rural social assistance pensions cut the incidence of destitution among poor older people by 95 per cent. In Chile TFPs consider…
Extending social security coverage: Concepts, global trends and policy issues
This article reviews the experience of some key low‐, middle‐ and high‐income countries that have successfully extended social security coverage or are in the process of doing so. It shows that a strong and competent State is a first requirement for the extension of social security. It also examines a variety of coverage indicators that can help national and international policymakers to focus their efforts on the extension of social security. Fi…
Social Security and the Global Socio-economic Floor: Towards a Human Rights-based Approach
This article shows that the commitment towards economic and social human rights, including the right to social security, will provide a strong force towards realizing the global socio-economic floor. The right to social security has become realizable in a growing number of countries that have focused on the extension of social security coverage. This article shows that a global social security floor is affordable, including in low-income countrie…
Social security coverage extension: A review of recent evidence
This article reports the findings of 13 studies undertaken as part of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) project on “Examining the existing knowledge on coverage extension”. It reviews recent evidence that highlights how cash benefits and health‐care coverage, financed on the basis of contributions or tax revenue or both, can be extended and maintained in low‐, middle‐ and high‐income countries. The article also highlights a num…
Social Protection, the Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights
This article is an attempt to outline the possible implications of a rights-based approach to social protection and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It starts with some remarks on the role of social protection floors and human rights in a new global social contract. It then provides a framework as to how the rights-based approach can be operationalised – for four main human rights principles and using structural, process and output indica…
Social Protection for Migrant Workers: National and International Policy Challenges
In the current global context, many migrant workers, and in particular women and irregular workers, are not - or are very inadequately - covered by social security and other social protection programmes. Current human rights standards related to migrant workers and families have so far had little impact on this situation. This article first examines various national approaches to extending social security to migrant workers in low-, middle- and h…
Civil society and the social protection floor
Civil society wholeheartedly supports the concept of social protection floors and, in particular, the adoption of the ILO Recommendation concerning national floors of social protection, 2012 ( N o. 202). The implementation of social protection floors will be a great step forward towards the reduction of poverty and inequality as well as to the empowerment of people worldwide. The civil society movement is convinced that the rights‐based approach …
Economics (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social security (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Poverty (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Social protection (5 works) · Geography (4 works)