Firstly, it is necessary to measure the effectiveness of the current protection schemes, not only from the economic point of view, but also from the social point of view. The critical issues of transition in Eastern European countries and the re-occurrence of profound crises have demonstrated clearly the inaccuracy and insufficiency of the effects of social protection in these countries. The ke...

This paper formally explores the optimal length of copyright protection when the value of an intellectual work changes over time due to depreciation and value-enhancing ex-post investments. The first main finding is that in the case of a single project granting infinitely-lived copyright protection maximizes social welfare when the return on ex-post investments is high relative to the return on...

BACKGROUND Social protection (ie, cash transfers, free schools, parental support) has potential for adolescent HIV prevention. We aimed to identify which social protection interventions are most effective and whether combined social protection has greater effects in South Africa. METHODS In this prospective longitudinal study, we interviewed 3516 adolescents aged 10-18 between 2009 and 2012. ...

This paper discusses the changes in the social assistance component of social protection in the two decades that followed the 1988 Constitution. It discusses the transformations of social protection and social assistance in the past decades and the processes that in the 1990 s advanced the reform of social assistance policies in Brazil without, however, producing great changes in how services w...

This paper examines the dual welfare system in India and the role of corporations as providers of social protection. The aim is to ascertain who is driving and providing social security, education, and health to informal and formal sector workers and their families. It further attempts to illuminate why corporations are taking steps to address some of welfare needs of the greater population as ...

A diverse range of social security, social insurance and social protection schemes have emerged in China in recent years. International Labour Organization definitions for these terms are as follows: Social security refers to the protection which society provides its members through a series of public measures: (a) to offset the absence of substantial reduction of income from work resulting fro...