Field Of Social Protection Research Articles

Державне управління у сфері соціального захисту населення: теоретичні аспекти

У статті здійснено аналіз теоретичних підходів до інтерпретації системи соціаль-ного захисту населення, розглянуто суб’єкти та об’єкти соціального захисту, визна-чено специфіку державного управління у сфері соціального захисту. Запропонованонову редакцію визначення поняття «соціальний захист населення». Зроблено ви-сновок про те, що розвиток державного управління соціальним захистом населенняв Україні вимагає застосування сучасної методології вирішення проблем. У цьомузв’язку виникають проблеми адекватного застосування загальних та спеціальнихпідходів і методів державного управління, зокрема аналізу державної політики, сис-темного та ситуаційного аналізу, програмно-цільового підходу, методів експертнихоцінок.

Сутність та особливості управління організаційно-педагогічною діяльністю недержавних установ у сфері соціального захисту дітей та молоді

The article deals with the essense and characteristics of management by organizational and educational activity of non- governmental institutions in the field of social protection of children and youth; the basic management functions in the social sphere are analyzed with accounting of specific of non- government institutions; reflects the organizational structu1re of non-governmental institutions and main directions of its activities in conditions of increase of civil society influence in the field of social protection of children and youth

Toward Shared Prosperity: China’s New Leap Forward in Social Protection

:The foundation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 marked the realization of a dream strived for by millions of Chinese people over the preceding hundred years, i.e., the dream of liberation. Since 1949, China has gone through two stages of historical development, in which it realized the dream of self-reliance and the dream of freedom from poverty, respectively. Having entered the third stage of its contemporary history, China is now striving to achieve a new dream of shared prosperity for all. Supported by statistical data, this paper argues that China has made a great leap forward in the field of social protection over the past 10-plus years. This new leap forward has quietly brought about enormous changes to the Chinese society. On one hand, it has stopped inequality from further deteriorating; on the other hand, it has created a benign environment for lessening human insecurity.

La protección social como problema de coordinación

This article aims to provide new insights to the debate about how to analyze the performance of social protection policies, with special interest in Chile. The article develops the concept of coordination and its reach in the field of social protection, generating an analytical framework that draws attention to three critical aspects: the generation of expectations and motivations between beneficiaries; the articulation of the agencies related with the production of social protection benefits, and the linkage of the systemic resources necessary to produce those benefits. These elements are translated into a matrix which helps ordinating the analysis and observing the performance of policies and programmes in different aspects of its functioning.

The social protection floor and global social governance: Towards policy synergy and cooperation between international organizations

AbstractThis article addresses the influence of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on other international organizations and global agencies which resulted in their endorsement of the Social Protection Floor (SFP) concept. By 2012 the concept had been endorsed by the United Nations in the shape of the UN Chief Executives Board's SPF‐Initiative, the World Bank in its new Social Protection and Labor Strategy and by the G20 at the Cannes Summit. Furthermore the IMF had agreed to work with the ILO to explore the options for creating fiscal space within countries to fund SPFs. Special Rapporteurs for the UN Human Rights Council had also in 2012 called for the setting up of a global fund for social protection to enable poorer countries to develop their floors. By 2012 a new coordinating authority, the Social Protection Inter‐Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC‐B), had been ushered into existence to facilitate inter‐agency cooperation. This article describes and explains how these developments came about. It asks if the reality of increased global social governance cooperation in the field of social protection is as effective as it seems or whether there are new contradictions, overlapping and competing mandates and policy disagreements at the global level.

Current Challenges for Long-Term Care Management in Spain

Due to the demographic and social changes that have taken place in recent years, Spanish society is undergoing a progressive ageing process, with increasing numbers of dependent people thus requiring long-term care. The main purpose of the present paper is to analyze the challenges inherent in managing these healthcare services. We start by examining the last ‘Survey on Disability, Personal Autonomy and Dependency’ conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and the ‘Dependency Law’, which constitutes the greatest breakthrough there has been in the field of social protection in Spain in recent decades. As w ell as studying the participation of the General State Administration and the Regional Autonomous Communities, we highlight the cooperation, coordination and financial support demanded of these government entities. Effective management is only possible if this commitment is fulfilled, based on identifying current needs and establishing appropriate action towards the achievement of well-defined healthcare goals.

El «momento mutualista» en la formulación de un sistema de protección social en Argentina: socorro mutuo y prevención subsidiada a comienzos del siglo XX

In this article I study the foreigners’ mutual aid practices and their role in the diffusion of solidarist thinking that would provide a set of conceptual tools and techniques that would be essential in the demands for protection coming from workers and in formulating the first projects for putting in place a national insurance system. This research allow me to point out the transnational dimension of the construction of the field of social protection. The first part of the article is an empirical demonstration of this reality using qualitative and quantitative sources from public and private archives. In the second one I pay attention to the concrete mechanisms in the circulation of knowledge. In particular, the article analyses the different mutualist congresses organized in Buenos Aires during the first two decades of the twentieth century and the impact of the visit of Leopold Mabilleau, a French intellectual, expert in mutual insurance systems and «apostle» of solidarism.

Promoting cohesion in measuring homelessness within the European Union

In recent years, the European Union has taken significant steps towards closer cooperation in the field of social protection and inclusion, recognising the contribution that social policy can make to economic performance. Greater cohesion has been promoted through the open method of coordination (OMC), a process based on the adoption of common objectives, reconfigured governance networks and policy learning and transfer. Homelessness is part of this agenda. This paper offers an assessment of the OMC hypothesis with respect to measuring homelessness. It demonstrates that the OMC process has had some success in promoting closer collaboration but that substantial differences remain between states in their approaches and methods to homelessness data collection. It concludes by arguing that the current approach to homelessness within Europe is unlikely to achieve the goal of developing integrated responses to prevent and address homelessness without significant additional direction and action at both European and national levels.

INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL PROTECTION AT THE LOCAL LEVEL: UNDERMINING OR REINFORCING SOCIAL POLICY?

Inequality is an interdisciplinary issue shaped at supranational, national and regional or local level. Public policies in tackling inequality are regulated under pressures produced by global conjuncture and the way that these are affecting national welfare arrangements. Local authorities increasingly implement social protection interventions across Europe, as local distributors of state's policies. In Greece, in the field of local government have taken place major reforms the last three decades. Responsibilities of local authorities have widened, especially in the field of social protection, based mainly on EU's Structural Funds. In the current conjuncture of fiscal austerity and deregulation of the -weak anyway- welfare state in general social policy seems to be squashed in between the supra national factor on one side and subnational on the other.

Tussen droom en daad…: over armoedebestrijding, minimuminkomensgarantie en het Europese sociale model

Poverty rates in the EU have not fallen in recent decades, but have stagnated or even increased. There are indications that the erosion of social benefits may be an important factor explaining the poverty standstill. As a result, a number of recent studies on poverty trends have formulated the recommendation that minimum income protection standards be defined at the EU level. In this article we argue that there are good reasons to assume that the adequacy of guaranteed minimum income schemes may become the subject of the first legislative and legally binding initiative in the field of social protection. First, the topic has already featured prominently in the European policy debate since the early 1990s. Second, most Member States already have minimum income schemes in place. Finally, research suggests that an effective anti-poverty strategy essentially includes adequate income protection. However, between dream and reality there stand concepts and technical and budgetary considerations. Therefore any binding agreement with regard to minimum incomes would have to be formulated flexibly and introduced gradually.

The System of Long-Term Care in Poland

In the field of social protection, Poland belongs to the EU group of countries with the family-based welfare model, what is extremely visible for the long-term care where family is the main care provider for elderly individuals with limitations in activities of daily living. At the same time the proportion of elderly in the coming decades is projected to be among the highest in the European Union, what raises questions on the design of the long-term care. For the moment the system is highly unregulated and disintegrated between social assistance and health care services. But it is the health sector that concentrates policy debate with a proposal of an introduction of nursing insurance. In the social sector, the significant changes that were favorable to LTC services development were introduced by the law on the social assistance (2004) and family benefits (2003) widening the scope of care available at home and in adult day care centers. But still provision of services is insufficient and a market of private services, paid out-of-pocket rapidly develops. It seems that main problems of the long-term care development in the future will be raising demand against insufficient resources and diversified priorities of the health care system.

La protección social como problema de coordinación

This article aims to provide new insights to the debate about how to analyze the performance of social protection policies, with special interest in Chile. The article develops the concept of coordination and its reach in the field of social protection, generating an analytical framework that draws attention to three critical aspects: the generation of expectations and motivations between beneficiaries; the articulation of the agencies related with the production of social protection benefits, and the linkage of the systemic resources necessary to produce those benefits. These elements are translated into a matrix which helps ordinating the analysis and observing the performance of policies and programmes in different aspects of its functioning.

Decommodification and beyond: A Comparative Analysis of Work-Injury Programmes

This article examines work-injury programmes in different welfare states. The article’s goals are to provide a better understanding of these programmes and to further develop concepts for comparison between welfare states. Work-injury programmes are a component in the social security systems of most countries throughout the world. Nevertheless, cross-national comparative research into this field of social protection has been very limited. This article undertakes a quantitative comparison of work-injury programmes in 10 different welfare states, which represent various types of welfare regimes. Decommodification and self-development are the two key concepts that serve as a basis for the comparison and indexes measuring these two concepts are constructed. The findings of the study indicate that social-democratic welfare states, followed by Australia and Israel, have workinjury programmes with the greatest potential for decommodification and self-development. By contrast, work-injury programmes in liberal welfare states such as Britain and the United States have a low decommodifying and self-development potential.

Regulations in the field of social protection in Romania

Highlights social policy in Romania and how it has changed from pre‐1990 to its situation today (from nil to 9 per cent unemployment!). Covers the Laws and Acts therein in great detail, showing how they are used and when. Concludes the “social pact” signed between the government and the unions, to which no other social category takes part, is proof that social policies are influenced by the work contract.

Économie sociale et nouveaux pays industrialisés: Le cas de la Corée du sud

For more than 30 years, South Korea has experienced exceptional economic growth. In the context of such an accomplishment, is any room left for the social economy organizations? The analysis of available legal and economic data shows that whereas these organizations have a nonnegligible place in the Korean economy, on the one hand their role is limited in comparison with their western counterparts, and on the other hand the boundaries between public, capitalist and social economy sectors are blurred. The family in Korea is the most natural factor of socio‐economic integration; in many areas the family substitutes for intermediaries like the social economy organizations. The economic crisis that touched Korea at the end of 1997 contributed to the weakening of the traditional model of family solidarity and offered new prospects for the Korean social economy, especially in the field of social protection and social services. This is similar to what seems to be evolving in Europe.

International comparison of social security and retirement funds from the national savings perspective

The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the complex issue of the relationships between social security, national saving and economic development. A description of the wide range of differing practices in the field of social protection constitutes the introductory part of the analysis. This is followed by a discussion of financing techniques and investment possibilities open to social security schemes. The debate on the relationships between social security and saving is illustrated by a survey of various empirical investigations reported in the relevant literature. The discussion ends with some reflections on the role of social security in the development process.