scholarly journals Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Serbian Citizens Abroad

2020 ◽  
pp. 319-333
Author(s):  
Tamara Popic
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
Cultural Engagement ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Pension Benefits

AbstractThis chapter shows that Serbia’s diaspora policies have given priority to economic, but also cultural engagement of Serbian nationals residing abroad. Following a discussion on the key features of the diaspora, the infrastructure of the state to deal with nationals abroad and its key engagement policies, it focuses on five social protection dimensions and shows that Serbia’s policies are limited to health and pension benefits, and this only under special conditions. Overall, the chapter puts forward the claim that the very limited social protection benefits granted to diaspora can be explained by the elites’ perception of diaspora as mainly an economic resource, and as a supplement to the country’s social-safety net.

Pushing for Policy Innovation

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-147
Author(s):  
Marianne S. Ulriksen
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Domestic Institutions ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policy Solutions

In the early 2000s, there was low elite commitment to social protection in Tanzania. Yet, in 2012, the government officially launched a countrywide social safety net programme and a year later announced the introduction of an old-age pension. This chapter explores what explains the change in elite commitment to social protection between the early 2000s and 2015. The analysis takes an ideational approach, and it is shown how the promotion of social protection has been driven by international and domestic institutions with the resources, expertise, and authority to present policy solutions fitting the elite’s general ideas about Tanzania’s development challenges and possible responses thereto. Thus, ideas play an important role in policy development but they may also be vulnerable to political interests that can challenge the long-term sustainability of promoted policies.

What’s an Economy For?

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-212
Author(s):  
Maxine Eichner
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Public Programs ◽  
The Public ◽  
Prekindergarten Programs ◽  
Economic Goal

This chapter describes how US policymakers would regulate the economy if they became serious about supporting the American Dream. Legislators would stop making an ever-higher GDP the ultimate economic goal and instead focus on ensuring that every American gets the resources they need to thrive. Since thriving Americans require healthy families, this would require ensuring that families, too, receive the resources they need to thrive. To serve these goals, markets must be put in their proper place in the larger economy, alongside both families and government. When it comes to ensuring that families get the resources they need, the state has five critical functions to fill. These are: (1) partnering with parents to provide the conditions young children need at home; (2) investing in excellent daycare and prekindergarten programs; (3) regulating the economy to reduce economic inequality and insecurity; (4) constructing a strong social safety net; and (5) regulating the workplace to allow workers to reconcile work with family. The chapter closes by describing the public programs that would support each of these five functions.

scholarly journals The Economic Resource Receipt of New Mothers

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 1305-1330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Nichols ◽  
Cheryl Elman ◽  
Kathryn M. Feltey
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Family Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Network Support ◽  
Economic Support

U.S. federal policies do not provide a universal social safety net of economic support for women during pregnancy or the immediate postpartum period but assume that employment and/or marriage will protect families from poverty. Yet even mothers with considerable human and marital capital may experience disruptions in employment, earnings, and family socioeconomic status postbirth. We use the National Survey of Families and Households to examine the economic resources that mothers with children ages 2 and younger receive postbirth, including employment, spouses, extended family and social network support, and public assistance. Results show that many new mothers receive resources postbirth. Marriage or postbirth employment does not protect new mothers and their families from poverty, but education, race, and the receipt of economic supports from social networks do.

scholarly journals Perlindungan Sosial Bagi Perempuan Korban Pernikahan Dini di Gorontalo

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-246
Author(s):  
Yuhelson Yuhelson ◽  
Ramlani Lina Sinaulan ◽  
Abdul Rahmat
Keyword(s):  
Women Victims ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Low Education ◽  
Role Of Parents

This study explores the dynamic of early-age marriage and implementing social protection concepts for households’ women victims in Gorontalo. This research uses qualitative method with explorative-inductive approaches. We were collected data by interviews, observation, and documentation. Resulting studies that early-age marriage cases in Gorontalo effected by low education, patriarchy system, domestic violence, divorced, and multi-dimensional poverty. For that, this study recommended that social control be worked fine, where the role of parent’, education, and community—create a social safety net for getting better—this role of parents and educational institutions in implementing the protection concept as a social policy reformulation material.Studi ini mengeksplorasi dinamika pernikahan dini dan skema perlindungan sosial yang tepat bagi perempuan korban kekerasan dalam ruamh tangga di Gorontalo. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan eksploratif-induktif. Data dikumpulkan dengan wawancara, observasi, dan dokumentasi. Hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa kasus pernikahan dini di Gorontalo disebabkan oleh rendahnya tingkat pendidikan, budaya patriarkhi, kekerasan dalam rumah tangga, perceraian, dan kemiskinan multidimensi. Untuk itu, studi ini merekomendasikan agar kontrol sosial dapat berfungsi dengan baik—peran orang tua, sekolah, dan komunitas—agar social safety net berjalan dengan baik. Peran ini tercermin dalam konsep perlindungan sebagai bahan untuk reformulasi kebijakan sosial. 

Neoliberalism and the Negotiation of the American Dream in Contemporary Latina Narratives

2019 ◽  
pp. 221-242
Author(s):  
Jenifer A. Skolnick ◽  
Emmanuel Alvarado
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
American Christianity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Latino American

This chapter will examine the relationship between Christian religiosity and attitudes toward social safety-net policies over the past three decades among Latinos in the US. Over the past thirty years the US has experienced notable reductions in social safety-net coverage, in the context of successive waves of neoliberal economic reforms. This has left members of the Latino and Black community particularly vulnerable to economic cycles and downturns. Within this context, this chapter analyzes the nexus between neoliberal political discourse, potent cultural narratives found within American Christianity and public support for social protection policies. In particular, the chapter addresses the way in which Christian themes, such as the Catholic social teaching, the mainline Protestant social gospel, the American adaptation of liberation theology, and the evangelical ethos of self-reliance and independence, interact with the formation of public attitudes towards greater or lesser support for social safety-net policies among American Latinos. Additionally, the present chapter will also bring to the foreground the role of Christianity among US Latinos in the creation of an issue-bundling effect in recent electoral competition since moral or social value issues are often bundled along with opposition to social protection policies in the two-party American political system. Lastly, the present work will propose a broad framework through which to interpret our findings grounded on the existence and interaction of two counterpoised cultural narratives on social protection found within Latino American Christianity.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Social Safety Net Programs for Poor People in the Government Level of Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-158
Author(s):  
Md. Ashraful Alam ◽  
Sheikh Abir Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Poor Growth ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development Literature ◽  
Government Level

Social Safety Nets (SSNs) and the wider topic of Social Protection have assumed a centrality within the development literature in recent years. Publicly-sponsored protection of the poor and vulnerable has emerged from the shadows to become a mainstream concern for policymakers. The contribution of SSNs is now viewed not merely in terms of their impact on challenged families, but their systemic benefits - in enabling higher levels of employment and entrepreneurship, sustaining household consumption and human capital, securing pro-poor growth and promoting social inclusion and national cohesion. A body of experience, ranging across continents, has now been established to inform the building of functional social protection systems. Yet in spite of this new consensus much controversy remains. A crucial first step in the development of a well-fitted national approach is the balancing of experience elsewhere with the national context. The ambit of SSNs in Bangladesh is often wide and fragmented. These typically include welfare payments, work guarantee schemes and conditional cash transfers; and comprise both on and off-budget allocations and a plethora of programs supported by donors. Gaining an understanding of the nature of provision and its functionality is another important first step in crafting a pro-development social protection system. This research provides information about different social safety net programs in government level. An attempt has been made to explore the effectiveness and the existing problems of current social safety net programs. The study also discusses the status and accessibility of beneficiaries in selected areas as well as advantages, limitations and prospects for social security in the context of this country. Besides, it also assesses the opinions of non-beneficiaries who know more or less about the programs. Finally the paper suggests that there is a need to establish workable and sustainable effects among recipients. It also recommends that systematic efforts should be made urgently for the proper organization and management of safety net programs.Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 3, Issue-3: 153-158

Poverty and the Social Safety Net

2020 ◽  
pp. 520-534
Author(s):  
Manos Matsaganis
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Third ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines how the social safety net (the welfare state’s anti-poverty armour) evolved since the mid-1970s, and how it responded to, and was transformed by, the social emergency of the 2010s. Its structure is as follows. The first section discusses the state of Greek welfare before the financial crisis broke out. The second section considers the social implications of the Great Recession, focusing on the effects on family incomes of job losses, falling earnings, and higher taxes. The third section provides an account of policy responses under austerity, and the fourth section reviews the evidence on changes in poverty and social exclusion. The chapter concludes that the Greek welfare state, even though no longer chronically underfunded, was structurally unfit to cope with any serious economic downturn, let alone the deep and protracted crisis that hit the country in 2010. Moreover, the system of social protection emerging from the recession and the austerity differ significantly from the situation that preceded it: it is certainly leaner, considerably less robust in core policy areas such as pensions and health, but also probably more effective in protecting vulnerable individuals and households against poverty than at any time in the country’s history.

scholarly journals The State of the Social Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne P. Bitler ◽  
Hilary W. Hoynes
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Dynamics of Designing and Implementing Social Safety Net Programmes in Developing Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hare Krisna Kundo
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
The Common ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Structural Perspective

Social Safety Net as a part of social protection programmes is now very popular in many developing countries. Political discourses have a role in prioritizing and implementing such pro-poor policy. The objective of this paper is to understand the dynamics of political discourses that influences in adopting and sustaining Social Safety Net Programmes in these countries utilizing the common assumptions proposed by Hickey (2006) and Barrientos and Pellissery (2012). The analysis of this paper identifies that the assumptions developed by Hickey, Barrientos and Pellissery are not adequate enough to capture political discourses around SSNPs in the developing countries. These assumptions mainly help us to understand such discourses from the macro/structural perspective and fail to capture the politics at the micro level. The paper, therefore, argues for more rigorous empirical based research from cross-country perspective focusing both macro and micro level politics.

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