Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1177/14680181221111968
Daniel Künzler
The francophone and especially iberophone countries of the UN subregion Middle Africa are a gap in the literature on social policies in sub-Saharan Africa. A comparative analysis shows that there are differences in the provision of social services in the mainly authoritarian regimes in Middle Africa. Countries with a current or past form of authoritarianism that include elites from regions across the country are less underperforming regarding social services than the more exclusive authoritarian regimes based on one region or even one family. However, against parts of the literature, no Middle African country introduced a tax-financed age-based cash transfer, although most of them, having natural resources, are not low-income countries. Many have fragmented small short-term emergency cash transfers that the literature expects rather in low-income countries. The remarkable exceptions are the richest upper middle-income countries, namely Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, where research did not reveal any cash transfer programmes. Social policies are strikingly unimportant as electoral issues.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-28DOI: 10.1177/14680181221094906
Margaret Babirye, J. Berten, Fabian Besche-Truthe, A. Boyashov, Sara Curfé, Eberechukwu Igbojekwe, Meghan C. Laws, Malte Neuwinger, Tahnee Ooms, Robin Schulze
The Global Social Policy (GSP) Digest was produced under the co-editorship of Robin Schulze Waltrup and Meghan Laws and under the lead editorship of Amanda Shriwise with support from Bielefeld University and the University of Bremen. It has been compiled by Margaret Babirye, John Berten, Fabian Besche-Truthe, Anatoly Boyashov, Sara Curfé, Eberechukwu Igbojekwe, Meghan Laws, Malte Neuwinger, Tahnee Ooms, Robin Schulze Waltrup, and Amanda Shriwise. All websites referenced were accessible in February 2022. This edition of the Digest covers the period from October 2021 to January 2022.
《全球社会政策文摘》由罗宾·舒尔茨·沃尔特鲁普和梅根·劳斯共同主编，阿曼达·施里怀斯主编，比勒菲尔德大学和不来梅大学提供支持。它由Margaret Babirye, John Berten, Fabian Besche-Truthe, Anatoly Boyashov, Sara curf， Eberechukwu Igbojekwe, Meghan Laws, Malte Neuwinger, Tahnee Ooms, Robin Schulze Waltrup和Amanda Shriwise编辑。所有引用的网站在2022年2月都可以访问。本期文摘涵盖2021年10月至2022年1月期间。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-24DOI: 10.1177/14680181221111702
Armin Müller, Tobias ten Brink
This study seeks to explain why China’s Urban Employees’ Social Insurance (UESI) features models that can be considered internationally mainstream in three of its branches (pensions, work accidents and unemployment), but fringe models in the other two (healthcare and maternity). Focusing on learning as a mechanism of diffusion, it compares the five insurance programmes of the UESI regarding the influence of domestic and international factors on the outcomes. Compared to previous work on Latin America, the study identifies new factors influencing learning processes, such as economic transition in the case of unemployment insurance. Furthermore, the study finds deviations from previously established connections between the complexity of policy subsystems and the synthesis of different policy options. Nevertheless, the results largely corroborate previous arguments about complexity: policy subsystems with a smaller number of international models are more conducive to adopting simple, neat policy models.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1177/14680181221094936
E. Senghaas-Knobloch
Interdisciplinary knowledge about the high relevance of care, care work and the care economy has been produced for many decades. Feminist scholars have long struggled for the recognition of these activities as a vital economic and social contribution to societies. As an unplanned consequence of globalization, liberalization and privatization – the dominant trends in international politics – this relevance has become more visible to a wider audience and politically significant to the International Labour Organization (ILO). Worldwide, it informed new political approaches to reevaluate care activities and care work. The approach of primarily improving individual employment relationships, as important it is, does not seem to be sufficient to bring about decent work in care activities.
{"title":"ILO policy in perspective: Reframing care and care work as a public good. Observations from Europe","authors":"E. Senghaas-Knobloch","doi":"10.1177/14680181221094936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181221094936","url":null,"abstract":"Interdisciplinary knowledge about the high relevance of care, care work and the care economy has been produced for many decades. Feminist scholars have long struggled for the recognition of these activities as a vital economic and social contribution to societies. As an unplanned consequence of globalization, liberalization and privatization – the dominant trends in international politics – this relevance has become more visible to a wider audience and politically significant to the International Labour Organization (ILO). Worldwide, it informed new political approaches to reevaluate care activities and care work. The approach of primarily improving individual employment relationships, as important it is, does not seem to be sufficient to bring about decent work in care activities.","PeriodicalId":46041,"journal":{"name":"Global Social Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49202001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1177/14680181221094946
J. Fudge
Temporary labour migration programmes (TLMPs) began to grow in the mid-1990s and by 2017 outstripped permanent migration for work (International Labour Organization (ILO), 2017a, 5). TLMPs impose limits on the length of time a migrant is lawfully permitted to be in the receiving country and stipulate the type of work that a migrant can lawfully perform. Typically targeting low-wage workers, TLMPs are frequently seasonal, and they are often circular. Migrant workers admitted under these programmes are regularly denied the same rights as permanent residents or citizens in the host state and they face a range of restrictions relating to access to benefits and services, mobility, residence, employment, and family life (Fudge, 2012). In effect, TLMPs create a hierarchically organized and differentiated supply of migrant workers who are often racialized and gendered (Lewis et al., 2015; Surak, 2013). Since these programmes often tie migrant workers’ right to reside and work in the host state to an on-going employment relationship with a sponsoring employer, employers exercise a great deal of control over migrant workers. TLMPs for low wage workers are associated with severe decent work deficits such as forced labour, wage theft, and discrimination (ILO, 2017a: 117).
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Pub Date : 2022-06-14DOI: 10.1177/14680181221094953
J. Wheeler
Migrant workers are the backbone of many global supply chains, performing some of the hardest tasks with few protections, low pay, and at high risk for abuse, including being lured into debt bondage (International Business Leaders Forum [IBLF], 2010). Migrant workers number about 169 million, with about 58 million in ‘irregular migration’ (i.e. not authorized to work; International Labour Organization [ILO], 2021: 2–3). A seminal study revealing many female migrants in forced labor in the Malaysia electronic industry caused a global rethink of auditing (Verité, 2014). Reports by the ILO and other revealed extensive forced labor and trafficking abuses in the global fishing industry, spurring efforts to correct (FishWise, 2017; ILO, 2015). Broadly speaking, the ILO addresses migrant worker rights through its Decent Work Agenda, Conventions and Recommendations, and in alignment with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). New opportunities exist, however, for measurably improving labor rights protections in global supply chains through improved standard setting and enhanced verification of conformance to the standards as well as product traceability. While the ILO has had some limited engagement in this realm, it may find greater success with sustained
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Pub Date : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1177/14680181221099839
V. Diwakar
This study focuses on the interaction between disability, chronic poverty and gender in rural Bangladesh, relying on analysis of the Chronic Poverty and Long Term Impact Study conducted between 1997 and 2010. A series of logistic regressions investigate the relationship between disabilities and chronic poverty among women with their employment, education, assistance and household coping strategies. The results indicate that primary schooling is lower among girls compared with boys in chronically poor households, with implications for the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Even where the probability of employment for chronically poor women with disabilities is positive, these women are potentially unlikely to be engaged in work that safeguards their rights or contributes to poverty escapes. Moreover, in the face of shocks, poverty becomes stickier, in the absence of effectively targeted safety nets coupled with adverse coping strategies that prolong poverty. The article concludes with a call for ensuring that intersectionality is more firmly embedded into existing social protection programmes.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-02DOI: 10.1177/14680181221121442
Margaret Grosh, P. Leite, M. Wai-Poi, E. Tesliuc
• There is a strong consensus around the need to reduce poverty and inequality and a drive toward Universal Social Protection (USP) as part of the Sustainable Development Goals to be met by 2030, a goal shared by governments around the world and supported by the World Bank as part of the USP 2030 initiative.1 • Hundreds of social programs around the world differentiate eligibility and/or benefits in various ways, for example, regions of residence, individual or household characteristics, social vulnerabilities or welfare, or a combination of these, and nearly every country has at least one poverty-targeted social assistance program, and often one or more of these are flagship programs of high profile. • The job of targeting individuals or groups is difficult and there are many criteria and metrics with which success or lack thereof can be gauged. Thus, the issue of whether current practice is acceptable, can be improved upon or should be abandoned recurs in instance after instance.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-25DOI: 10.1177/14680181221094954
Jill Jensen, N. Piper
International thinking and concern about cross-border migration among policymakers and practitioners are at historically high levels, so much so that there is now ‘greater political focus on migration within the international community’ (Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN), 2019: 3) than previously. Migration has come to be recognised as a multifaceted phenomenon in terms of who moves, for what reason and by what means. The intensification of efforts made over the last decades at the global level to coordinate policy on migration across the world is indicative of the recognition that the movement of people is a truly global phenomenon; not only in terms of its geographic reach implicating most if not all countries around the world but also for the wide ranging socio-economic and political implications spanning migrant origin, destination and transit countries. ‘Global’, thus, importantly also relates to the role of organisational actors whose globality is evidenced by (voluntary or involuntary) engagement with, and solution finding for, large-scale challenges that transcend national boundaries, such as labour migration. Despite these recent efforts to coordinate migration policy in recognition of its globality, international migration is clearly a phenomenon that has a far longer history worldwide. Yet, the fact that migration is typically framed as a ‘problem’ and that this framing has come in waves is often ignored. Throughout history, migrants have been in need whenever there is a (real or perceived) shortage of workers but subsequently are scapegoated during periods of economic and production downturns. All the time, migrants have been subjected to unequal bargaining power and legal barriers put in place to restrict their
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Pub Date : 2022-05-19DOI: 10.1177/14680181221094934
Fabiola Mieres, C. Kuptsch
In 2021, amid the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) held its 109th International Labour Conference (ILC) in a virtual mode and experimented a new form of multilateralism using virtual technologies and adaptation across multiple time zones which required new forms of solidarity among nations. Despite the challenges, the ILC adopted a series of resolutions and conclusions on important issues pertaining to the world of work such as social security, inequalities, skills and lifelong learning; and a call to action to respond to the COVID-19 crisis.1 All these resolutions are inclusive of migrant workers and some of their particularities. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic took place in an already testing and fragile global scenario with high environmental risks due to climate change, technological transformations, and demographic shifts. In addition, mounting popular unrest became more acute in light of the existing inequalities that were amplified with the pandemic. Taking this complex setting into account, this piece reflects on the notion that ‘labour is not a commodity’ as a key founding concept enshrined in the ILO’s Philadelphia Declaration of 1944. Rethinking and bringing back this notion is important for it represents a means to materialize a ‘human-centred approach’ to the world of work and beyond, strengthening the global governance of labour while providing hope to restore a fragile world order. A ‘human-centred approach’ is the centre-piece of the ILO’s Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work (ILO, 2019) wherein the ILO reimagines itself to better deal with current challenges. This contribution will consider ILO’s relevance in the face of technological, socioeconomic and climatic alteration. It will look at transformative events in the form of ‘global crisis situations’ and reflect on the embeddedness of ILO policy in general trends of thinking on ‘the economic’ and ‘the social’ before focusing on aspects of the Philadelphia Declaration that can inspire a ‘post recovery world’.
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