Extending social security: Policies for developing countries

Ginneken, Wouter van

doi:10.1111/j.1564-913x.2003.tb00263.x

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“…Ac cess to so cial assis tance is also lim ited in some cases. The enor mous gaps in cov er age expose work ers and their fam i lies to the ef fects of ad ver sity in a way which un der mines their well-be ing in their daily lives as well as in the fu ture (van Ginneken, 2003;Mesa-Lago, 2004).…”

Section: Challenges Facing Social Protection In Latin Americamentioning

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Social Protection in Latin America: The Challenges of Heterogeneity and Inequity

Bertranou

Duran

2005

Int Social Security Review

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Section: Challenges Facing Social Protection In Latin Americamentioning

confidence: 97%

Social Protection in Latin America: The Challenges of Heterogeneity and Inequity

Bertranou

Duran

2005

Int Social Security Review

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“…About 90 percent of the population in Sub-Saharan African low-income countries are not covered by the formal state social protection services (International Labour Organization (ILO), 2000;Van Ginneken, 2003). Many of these people depend on traditional informal social protection systems.…”

Section: The State-informal Collective Modelmentioning

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(Non)state and (in)formal social protection in Africa: Focusing on burial societies

Dafuleya

2015

International Social Work

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Social protection has reached development policy agenda in Africa, and extending coverage to informal workers is now a key concern. First, this article develops a conceptual framework of social protection intersperse in Africa to identify the missing link in the evolving debates on extending social protection to informal workers. Second, the article reviews and assesses literature on African burial societies to make an argument that they are well positioned to be engaged as pathways for providing social protection to those working informally. The article concludes by identifying three models of possible pathways for extending social protection in Africa: the stateinformal single model, the state-informal collective model and the state-formal model.

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“…26,27 The number of MFIs offering insurance service rises. Many, if not all, of them are in the business not as a licensed insurance company but as a corporate agent of one or 22 Ginneken (2003) argues that premiums for low-income people do not reflect their risks but the services provided. It seems that his definition applies to a social microinsurance programme (e.g., health insurance for low-income people) in the public sector.…”

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An Analysis of Organisational, Market and Socio-cultural Factors Affecting the Supply of Insurance and Other Financial Services by Microfinance Institutions in Developing Economies

Kwon

2010

Geneva Pap Risk Insur Issues Pract

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This article first investigates the microfinance-principally microinsurance-market at the global level and the business structure of over 600 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in 83 countries that were in operation during 1998-2007. It then empirically examines the impact of organisational, market and socio-cultural factors on the supply of insurance, lending and savings services by MFIs in developing countries. Findings from a series of probit analyses indicate that a rise in the financial expense ratio, loan repayments in arrears, years of operation, number of borrowers, woman borrower ratio, life insurance penetration ratio and family size positively affect MFIs' willingness to expand their operations, certainly to microinsurance business. In contrast, they are likely to stay away from the insurance market when their loan asset ratio, bad loan write-off ratio or average loan size in comparison to GNI per capita is on the rise. It seems MFIs focus on lending service in Muslim populous countries. Finally, we find no evidence that presence of insurance affects availability of savings service, and vice versa, in the microfinance market.

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Extending social security: Policies for developing countries

Cited by 97 publications

References 5 publications

Social Protection in Latin America: The Challenges of Heterogeneity and Inequity

Social Protection in Latin America: The Challenges of Heterogeneity and Inequity

(Non)state and (in)formal social protection in Africa: Focusing on burial societies

An Analysis of Organisational, Market and Socio-cultural Factors Affecting the Supply of Insurance and Other Financial Services by Microfinance Institutions in Developing Economies

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