Peru’s government on Wednesday announced plans for an ambitious reform package including better health care and a higher minimum wage amid regional protests against market reforms and social injustice that have rocked neighbors...
Peru’s government on Wednesday announced plans for an ambitious reform package including better health care and a higher minimum wage amid regional protests against market reforms and social injustice that have rocked neighbors...
After 12 days of mass demonstrations, rioting and human rights violations, the government of President Sebastián Piñera must now find a way out of the crisis that has engulfed Chile. Analysts have correctly interpreted the wave of...
Over the last few years, both central and state governments have experimented with replacing social programs, such as the Public Distribution System (PDS) with direct benefit transfers (DBT). New research, though, suggests that...
BLOG: The Copenhagen Consensus a US-based think tank that researches and publishes the best ways for governments and philanthropists to spend their money says that every dollar spent on nutrition in the first thousand days could...
The European Commission has picked a new partner to run the most valuable humanitarian aid contract in the world. Out goes the UN World Food Programme, in comes the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies,...
A recent California law stops platform companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash from misclassifying their more than 400,000 drivers as independent contractors, rather than employees. It is an important first step toward protecting...
In 2008, the Philippines initiated a government-run cash transfer scheme knows as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). The program gives money to poor families, but only if they meet certain conditions. Government-funded...
The World Bank approved today an International Development Association (IDA)* grant of US$35 million equivalent from the institution’s Crises Response Window as additional financing to scale up the Government of Mozambique’s safety...
BLOG: History tells us that inclusive, lifecycle national social security systems play a key role in enabling nations to tackle poverty and inequality, promote human development, build the social contract, generate social cohesion...
Since 2015, conflict in Yemen has killed and injured civilians, restricted access to basic necessities, and deprived vulnerable Yemenis of the means to support themselves. In December 2018, the UN estimated that more than 24 million...
BLOG: Poverty, not war-related trauma, drives cognitive deficits in young people displaced by conflict, according to a new Yale-led study of adolescents affected by the crisis in Syria. The study, published in the journal Child...
BLOG: The world’s informal workers are constantly at risk of falling into poverty, but a burgeoning movement is searching for solutions for them. Sightly more than 60% of all working people in the world are informally employed. This...