précis this debate article highlights the challenges of health situation in iran and some influencing or relevant factors such as health sector, welfare system and social protection, social exclusion and civil society from the viewpoint of an international partner. some advanced experiences in iranian health system and the manner of system for international cooperation have also been discussed.

in this study, the comparative advantage of main agricultural products and its relation to cropping pattern was studied in ilam province. for data analyzing the comparative advantage and government policies effects indices, policy analysis matrix (pam) were used. the obtained results for the comparative advantage indices of domestic resource cost (drc), social cost benefit (scb) and net social ...

• Policy dialogue on the Millennium Development Goals must recognise that the goals are linked by the gender dynamics of power, poverty and vulnerability • Gender-sensitive social protection can contribute to the goals, but only if gender equality is seen as critical to programme effectiveness • Advances in gendersensitive programme design are being made but more investment is needed to build t...

Experience with urban social protection programmes is relatively limited in the Global South. Extensions or duplicates of rural assistance do not reflect distinct vulnerabilities poor, who face higher living costs and more precarious employment, are reached by insurance schemes that designed for formally employed workers. Neither Sustainable Development Goals nor New Urban Agenda a specific foc...

Due to the flexibilisation of labour and the trend towards the 'activating welfare state' social policies show an increasing interconnection of work and welfare issues. The Netherlands are no exception. It is generally believed that the Dutch welfare state is successfully activating its unemployed labour potential (often referred to as 'the Dutch Miracle'), and that flexible and part-time work ...

A comprehensive tax and benefit incidence analysis is presented covering the redistributive fiscal instruments implemented in Mexico in 2008 and 2010, representative of the urban and rural sectors, as well as nationally. The expansion of basic social programs and effectively targeted direct monetary transfers have increased the progressivity of Mexico ́s fiscal system in recent years, but redist...

Despite increasingly large scale social protection programmes in Africa, we have limited evidence on the political economy processes involved. We investigate community-based processes for food aid allocation and the role of political and social networks, using the case of Ethiopia in the aftermath of a serious drought. Local political authorities are in charge of food transfers, in terms of fre...

Chile has been a world pioneer in the structural reform of social security pensions and influenced similar changes in Latin America and Eastern Europe, as well as the programs of international financial organizations and the world debate on the subject. More than two decades have elapsed since the Chilean reform was implemented and several other countries in Latin America have accumulated impor...

This Article uses disgust theory — defined as the insights on disgust by psychologists and social scientists — to critique disgust’s role in abortion lawmaking. Its starting point is a series of developments that independently highlight and call into question the relationship between abortion and disgust. First, the Supreme Court introduced disgust as a valid basis for abortion regulation in it...