...Anthony Nkrumah Agyabeng; Francis Komla Ganyaglo; Awo Esaah Bempong; Andrews Ayiku; Ummu Markwei; Ernest Abraham Mensah Purpose The study examines the nexus between social protection policies and child labor from a gender-sensitive perspective in Ghana, a developing country context. Design...

...Ionut Marian Anghel Purpose This article examines how European Union member states expanded and adapted their social protection policies over the first 14 months of the Covid-19 pandemic and how their approaches varied based on their welfare regimes, legacies and institutional path dependencies...

...Ahmed Raza Ul Mustafa; Jabbar Ul-Haq; Nisar Ahmed Dahri; Rameez Ali Mahesar Purpose Social protection states the public-mandated (strategies and programmes) to address the vulnerability and risk among poor and near-poor households. Social protection must not only help people meet their basic needs...

... policy developments from a gender perspective. The authors analyse the level, reach and quality of social policy delivery to working-age women across the areas of health policy, social protection and employment policy during 2000–2021. Design/methodology/approach The article draws on qualitative...

... social protection and employment security, but by its capital deficiency, education and skills deficiencies and the absence of good governance. He saw the sector as “all that part of the economy which is not using reproducible capital. Output per head is lower in this sector than the capitalist sector...

...Charlotte Bilo; Anna Carolina Machado Purpose This paper discusses the role of Zakat Funds in the provision of social protection in the Middle East and North Africa region, based on the examples of Jordan and Sudan. The purpose of this paper is to assess different modalities...

... exploitation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Ghana Social policy Elderly people Social protection Non‐contributory pension Non‐means‐tested Universal old age security Rural‐urban migration Rural elderly population Population ageing in West Africa National ageing policy...