The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of the Somali Federal government is mandated to provide policy direction and guidance on all labour administration and vocational training matters. The Ministry is also mandated to protect and develop the labour...
The recently announced Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT) programme of the Government of India is being hailed as a ‘game changer’. Many in the media and social commentators have been quick to compare it with the Brazilian Bolsa Familia. Unfortunately both...
Institutions and agencies involved: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG
Traditionally, social protection programmes have been regarded as important because of concerns for equity and because they are a means of directly alleviating poverty. Emerging micro-level evidence, however, shows that such programmes can have strong...
Institutions and agencies involved: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG
This report is part of a series of national case studies aimed at disseminating knowledge on the current status of social protection systems in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and at discussing their main challenges in terms of realizing of the...
Institutions and agencies involved: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNECLAC
This report is part of a series of national case studies aimed at disseminating knowledge on the current status of social protection systems in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and at discussing their main challenges in terms of realizing of the...
Institutions and agencies involved: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNECLAC
This report is part of a series of national case studies aimed at disseminating knowledge on the current status of social protection systems in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and at discussing their main challenges in terms of realizing of the...
Institutions and agencies involved: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNECLAC
In recent years, the Government of Liberia launched efforts to develop a coordinated strategy for social protection. Indeed, social protection will be one of the key policy issues addressed within the Human Development pillar of the Poverty Reduction...
Institutions and agencies involved: World Bank Group
This study provides a diagnostic of the benefit incidence and targeting performance of a large number of social programs in Ghana. Both broad-based programs (such as spending for education and health, and subsidies for food, oil-related products and...
Institutions and agencies involved: World Bank Group
In this paper, I first assess Africa’s progress towards achieving the fi rst six Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on the main target indicators. Second, using recent African data on MDG indicators and an index of social protection, and after...
Institutions and agencies involved: European University Institute, EUI
This paper assesses developments in the provision of formal social protection in Africa. Formal social protection is defined to include actions taken by the public sector (alone or in conjunction with other parties such as non-governmental organisations...
Institutions and agencies involved: European University Institute, EUI