Books: social security

B 

• Building decent societies. Rethinking the role of social security in state building - Buy now
  31 July 2009 - This book makes the case for a comprehensive social security system to be developed in all countries, including the poorest ones, in order to eliminate desperate conditions of poverty, to reverse growing inequality and to sustain economic growth. This is a co-publication with Palgrave Macmillan

C 

• Combining work and elder care. A challenge for now and the future - Buy now
  25 June 1996 - Includes the texts of the Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention, 1981 (No. 156) and the Workers with Family Responsibilities Recommendation, 1981 (No. 165).

H 

• Health microinsurance schemes: Monitoring and evaluation guide. (Two-volume set) - Buy now
  21 August 2007 - This two-volume guide provides assitance for a process of monitoring and evaluating the microinsurance schemes. It provides managers a assisting tool during such process for their microinsurance schemes. It also allows stakeholders - both technical and financial - to evaluate the vialability and performance of such schemes.
• Health microinsurance schemes: Monitoring and evaluation guide. Volume 1: Methodology - Buy now
  21 August 2007 - This two-volume guide provides assitance for a process of monitoring and evaluating the microinsurance schemes. It provides managers a assisting tool during such process for their microinsurance schemes. It also allows stakeholders - both technical and financial - to evaluate the vialability and performance of such schemes.
• Health microinsurance schemes: Monitoring and evaluation guide. Volume 2: Practical indications - Buy now
  21 August 2007 - This two-volume guide provides assitance for a process of monitoring and evaluating the microinsurance schemes. It provides managers a assisting tool during such process for their microinsurance schemes. It also allows stakeholders - both technical and financial - to evaluate the vialability and performance of such schemes.

M 

• Mutual health organizations and micro-entrepreneurs’ associations. Guide - Buy now
  15 August 2001 - Shows how the need for health protection among micro-entrepreneurs can be addressed by mutual health organizations. Outlines the services provided by these organizations, describes their organization and operation and provides guidance on the establishment of such an organization by an association of micro-entrepreneurs.

S 

• Social protection and inclusion: Experiences and policy issues - Buy now
  18 November 2006 -
• Social security pensions. Development and reform - Buy now
  28 April 2000 - Discusses the current situation in pension schemes and considers the analytical social and economic consequences which arise from different pension strucures. Examines the practicalities of running a pension scheme and provides examples, summaries and quantitive information.
• Social Security Manual Vol.V- Social health insurance - Buy now
  10 March 2000 - Comprises eight modules which provide guidelines on the design and management of a social insurance scheme. Focuses on the needs of countries where social security systems are not yet operational or need to be improved. ...
• Social Security Manual Vol. III- Social security financing - Buy now
  15 June 1998 -

T 

• Tackling the global jobs crisis. Recovery through decent work policies - Buy now
  15 May 2009 - This report proposes the initial elements of a Global Jobs Pact based on the policy orientations provided by the Governing Body in November 2008 and March 2009 and by recent regional and sectoral tripartite ILO meetings on responses to the crisis. ...
• The International Labour Organization and the quest for social justice, 1919-2009 - Buy now
  16 March 2009 - The International Labour Organization was founded in 1919 in the belief that peace and social justice go hand in hand. This book explores key ideas that the ILO has championed and applied through the political and economic upheavals of the last 90 years. ...
• Tanzania Mainland. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget - Buy now
  18 February 2009 - This report takes into account demographic and macroeconomic information specific to mainland Tanzania and makes projections from a baseline year based on the two types of social protection schemes - contributory and non-contributory.
• The sex sector - Buy now
  06 August 1998 - Focuses on the commercial sex sector's connections with the national economies of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand as well as the international economy. Describes the organizational structures and relations within the commercial sex sector and illustrates how increasingly complex and significant the sector has become in these countries. ...

Z 

• Zambia. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget - Buy now
  12 February 2009 - This report, a review of the output of the first year's work of the project, examines the objective of extending social protection coverage in the country.