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Informal Employment and Pension and Healthcare Coverage by Social Insurance in Latin America

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article describes Latin America’s social insurance systems for pension and healthcare in the context of the region’s shift in...

Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: why cure crowds out prevention

Published by: BioMed Central

INTRODUCTION: This paper presents a system dynamics computer simulation model to illustrate unintended consequences of apparently...

Impact and Implications of the Ebola Crisis

Published by: GSDRC

This rapid literature review looks at the available evidence on the impact of the Ebola crisis on four key areas: political, economic, social, and security.

Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Relief Efforts

Published by: IDS

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around 15 per cent of the world’s population, or one billion people, have some form of disability.

Measuring destitution : integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches in the analysis of survey data

Published by: IDS

Through detailed discussion of a methodology developed to quantify destitution in rural Ethiopia, the paper raises a number of issues...

Measuring Conflict Exposure in Micro-Level Surveys

Published by: The World Bank

Published by the World Bank, this report extensively reviews current practices and datasets used in micro-level surveys of conflict-affected populations. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special focus on the World Bank’s Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) surveys.

Social Protection for Social Justice

Published by: IDS

The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from a conference hosted by the Centre for Social Protection at IDS in April 2011.

What do we mean by ‘major illness’? The need for new approaches to research on the impact of ill-health on poverty

It is widely recognised that ill-health is one of the most serious challenges that many individuals, households and families have to...

Measuring Destitution: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitive Approaches in the Analysis of Survey Data

Published by: IDS

Through detailed discussion of a methodology developed to quantify destitution in rural Ethiopia, the paper raises a number of issues and ideas concerning the integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches during survey analysis.