Can youth activation policies be central to social policies in MENA countries?

Barsoum, Ghada

doi:10.1111/issr.12165

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“…It is worth noting that these programmes replaced quasi‐universal food and energy subsidies. The coverage challenges facing non‐contributory schemes are compounded by the weak implementation of active labour market policies (Barsoum, 2018, 2017) to involve the poor in income generating activities. Furthermore, while cooperatives have globally played a role in providing social support to informal workers and the self‐employed (see, for example, Jang, 2017), they have a limited role in Egypt that is constrained by an outdated legal framework.…”

Section: Concluding Remarks and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Egypt’s reformed social insurance system: How might design change incentivize enrolment?

Barsoum

Selwaness

2022

Int Social Security Review

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In 2019, the Government of Egypt issued a new legal framework for its social insurance system. Aside from providing a unified scheme covering different groups of workers, the new regulation allowed for systemic and parametric reforms that were aimed in large part at addressing the challenge of workers’ low enrolment in social insurance, with an emphasis on informal workers. The reforms reduced the rate of contributions paid by employees and employers, increased the penalties for employers who do not register their workers, and improved the benefits structure. The law also specified provisions to facilitate the enrolment of informal workers by offering to cover the employer’s share of their contributions. However, the law limited such improved access to nine specific categories of informal workers, a decision that fails to recognize the diversity of informal forms of work. Based on the analysis of the characteristics of contributors to the previous system, this article argues that structural barriers pertaining to the large numbers of low‐earners and informal enterprises in the economy will likely hinder the expansion of system enrolment despite the legal reforms.

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Section: Concluding Remarks and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Egypt’s reformed social insurance system: How might design change incentivize enrolment?

Barsoum

Selwaness

2022

Int Social Security Review

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“…Among the first group, ALMPs are provided directly by the state in partnership with the private sector. In the second group, ALMPs are mainly provided by non-governmental organizations with donor support, and to an increasing extent by the private sector (Barsoum 2018). The private sector has been particularly involved in skill training programmes, responding to specific skill needs pertinent to their industries.…”

Section: Active Labour Market Programmesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, the Algerian government dedicated USD 4.7 billion to encourage job creation with a focus on university graduates and graduates of vocational training programmes (Musette 2014). Barsoum (2018) shows that funding to ALMPs remains ad hoc and consumes a meagre share of gross domestic product in all the region's countries. Limited spending reduces programme staffing capabilities and effectiveness.…”

Section: Active Labour Market Programmesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Handbook on Social Protection Systems

Schüring¹,

Loewe²

2021

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and currently General Coordinator of the public health master degree programmes and Manager of the Gaza branch. Bassam is also Associate Director-MENA region of the longitudinal research programme Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence. Bassam focuses on social determinants of health, economics, psychosocial, disability and cash transfers in conflict-affected settings with an emphasis on gender and adolescence.Niza Aragundi has been working in the social protection field since 1996 and has experience in the investigation, design, implementation, and evaluation of social protection programmes such as conditional and unconditional cash transfers, emergency programmes, as well as linkages and referrals. She is an economist from the Universidad Catolica in Quito, Ecuador. She has two master's degrees, one in Social, Economic and Financial Evaluation of Projects from the Universidad De los Andes in Colombia and the second in Social Intervention in Knowledge Cities from the University of La Rioja in Spain.Salla Atkins is a social scientist trained in South Africa and Sweden. She is Associate Professor of Global Health and Development at Tampere University. Since 2002, her work has focused on inequalities in health and wellbeing. She has worked collaboratively with researchers in low-, middle-and high-income contexts globally. She is an active researcher in the Health and Social Protection Action Research and Knowledge Sharing network (www . sparksnetwork .ki .se).Francisco V. Ayala has participated in the design and implementation of social protection programmes in more than 50 countries around the world. He has over 25 years of experience and has overseen social protection programmes focused on cash and in-kind transfers, emergencies, health, education and housing. He is an engineer from the Polytechnic School in Ecuador, a masters in business administration from the University of Texas as well as doctorate studies from George Washington University in Washington, DC. He has also collaborated in various social protection publications.

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Section: Active Labour Market Programmesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Active Labour Market Programmesmentioning

confidence: 99%