Adaptive Social Protection for Poor Families

Financial Support for Poor Families in Italy

FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR POOR FAMILIES IN ITALY (written by Isabella Ferrari 1 ) I. Family struggles in dealing with mortgage repayments Family finances have assumed an important role in the dynamics of worldwide legislation. The family has to be considered the primary economic unit, the catalyst for national growth and development; it is a source of earnings as well as of debts, strictly dependin...

Social Policies in Contemporary Latin America: Families and Poverty in the Social Protection Systems

This article examines the impact of social policies on the living conditions of poor families—particularly women—in Latin America from the late 1980s to the present. It identifies three distinct trends of familialism in the region’s social protection systems. The first social policy trend is characterized by poverty alleviation policies addressing the family in an “elliptical” way, taking for g...

Social protection systems in vulnerable families: their importance for the public health

OBJECTIVE To analyze the effectiveness of the Chilean System of Childhood Welfare in transferring benefits to socially vulnerable families. METHODS A cross-sectional study with a sample of 132 families from the Metropolitan Region, Chile, stratified according to degree of social vulnerability, between September 2011 and January 2012. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with mothers of the...

Public works and social protection in sub-Saharan Africa Do public works work for the poor?

Social Protection for the Poor in the Developed World: The Evi

This technical paper uses the multi-country data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine the institutions and levels of social protection for unemployment, disability, old age, and social assistance more generally, in a set of eight rich nations over the 1985-1995 period. These nations include those with expansive safety nets (e.g., Canada, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingd...