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27 May 21
Russia’s aim to halve poverty by 2030 would be easier and more cost-effective if it introduced a guaranteed minimum income programme rather than expand its existing social safety net, the World Bank...
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18 May 21
Covid-19 pushed France’s social security system to its biggest ever deficit in 2020 as health insurance costs shot up and revenues fell, the state spending watchdog has found.
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13 Oct 20
Auditors have urged France to cut spending on health insurance payments after projecting the social security system deficit will balloon by more than 20 times its size this year.
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15 Mar 19
The US political system is “too broken” to address the “demographic bomb” it faces - with older people expected to outnumber the number of children under the age of 18 in the country in 20 years.