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A Vision for the 2030 Social Protection System in Vietnam

18 Sep 2020

This note aims to outline a long-term vision for the social protection (SP) system in Vietnam. It brings together disparate lines of SP policy and operational system engagements across the three pillars of the social protection system: social insurance, social assistance and social care, and active labor market programs. It is motivated by the need for a SP vision that goes beyond incremental reforms of the individual pillars and moves towards a more coherent, relevant, effective and efficient SP system in which the whole is more than the sum of its parts (and the parts are also reformed). It should be a system which is more attuned to the needs of a middle and upper middle-income country that is navigating rapid structural reform, accelerating demographic transition, and facing a transition from a focus on chronic absolute poverty to one of relative poverty where social exclusion and inequality are of increasing concern. As Vietnam changes, so too its SP systems will need to evolve and adapt to remain effective and relevant. This system should also be one which captures the transformative opportunities offered by new technologies.
sustainable development goals foreign direct investment rural development disability economic assistance social assistance social insurance long-term care replacement rate conditional cash transfer school feeding program technical and vocational education labor markets activities of daily living social welfare system pension system value-added tax retirement age working age population elderly population mobile network social security system macroeconomics and economic growth social risk management east asia and pacific social protections and labor access of poor to social services services & transfers to poor million people source income source of income source of funding social protection and labor social protections & assistance human capital loss social protection system cash transfer program rural labor markets social assistance program skill development program principle of equality effect of climate change informal sector worker social development & poverty back into poverty financial service provider policy and institution state bank of vietnam economic internal rate of return population by age poverty alleviation effort consumption over time human capital formation active labor market policy active labor market policies private sector player social assistance system public works program private sector worker low labor productivity absolute reduction health insurance system active labor market program social assistance spending delivery of payment rate of change risk management tool ethnic minority household youth dependency ratio risk management arrangements social pension measure of inequality social security program poverty reduction program income and expenditure lack of linkage active labor market intervention old age dependency efficient labor market accrual rate formal pension system increase consumer price rates of population large value payment income support system privatization of energy informal care systems chronically poor people active labor program labor market volatility passive labor market

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Nguyen,Nga Nguyet-000097561,O'Keefe,Philip B.

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Doc Name
A Vision for the 2030 Social Protection System in Vietnam
Document Date
2019-06-01
Published in
United States of America
Total Volume(s)
1
Unit Owning
Social Protection & Labor EAP (HEASP)
Version Type
Final
Volume No
1

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