GENEVA (ILO News) – Wage growth around the world slowed in 2013 to 2.0 per cent, compared to 2.2 per cent in 2012, and has yet to catch up to the pre-crisis rates of about 3.0 per cent, according to the ILO’s Global Wage Report 2014/15 *. Even this...
GENEVA (ILO News) – An ILO study shows that 80 per cent of the population across 44 countries are without any health protection and are therefore deprived of the right to health. These countries include Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Guinea and Sierra Leone...
MANILA (ILO News) – The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates 800,000 workers have been affected by Typhoon Hagupit, locally known as Ruby, with their source of livelihood damaged or disrupted overnight. About 370,000 of these workers were in...
Lesotho's Social Development Policy and Social Protection Strategy, which Development Pathways were responsible for drafting, was approved yesterday by the Cabinet. The strategy, which sets out a clear framework for social protection based on the life...
On December 11th 2014, GPSA Knowledge Platform holds an interesting webinar on the design and implementation processes of Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs), and what makes them prone to two major risks: 1) mistaking the part for the whole and 2)...
New analysis argues that more needs to be done to ensure that the needs and rights of the one billion people worldwide with disabilities are better reflected in emergency relief efforts. Particularly as 80 per cent of those one billion are living in...
Dhaka, 11 December 2014 – The government of Bangladesh and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) signed a US$40 million loan agreement today that will provide financial services and technical training to 452,000 rural women and men...
Publisher: International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $150 million loan to the Dominican Republic to gradually consolidate social security coverage and improve efficiency in health care spending by deepening reforms the government has been...
The three-day international conference on Social Protection: Building Effective and Sustainable Systems for Equitable Growth took place from 15th to 17th December 2014 in Arusha, Tanzania, organized by the Poverty Eradication Department of the Ministry...