Social Citizenship for Older Persons? : Measuring the Social Quality of Social Pensions in the Global South and Explaining their Spread

Social pensions - non-contributory provisions for old age, mostly means-tested—have mushroomed in the global South since the 1990s, and have also been advocated by international organizations. Using the data base FLOORCASH constructed by the author...

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Main Authors: Böger, Tobias, Leisering, Lutz
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/908081501836438784/Social-citizenship-for-older-persons-measuring-the-social-quality-of-social-pensions-in-the-global-south-and-explaining-their-spread
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28285