America, United States Tuesday, August 9, 2022
In recent decades, many governments have attempted to encourage people into work by reducing welfare eligibility. By analyzing the changes in the American Supplemental Security Income program (SSI) policies, Manasi Deshpande and Michael Mueller-Smith find...
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Asia, India Tuesday, July 12, 2022
In 2002, BRAC Bangladesh pioneered a programme as part of their Graduation approach to development interventions. The programme aimed to lift ultra-poor women above the extreme poverty line within two years through the provision of small productive assets and...
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Africa Tuesday, May 3, 2022
The importance of youth mental health is being increasingly recognised as a key determinant of population health outcomes. As the dominant social protection tool across the Africa, could cash transfer programmes act as a tool to improve mental health among...
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Europe, United Kingdom Thursday, March 31, 2022
MSc Anthropology and Development alum Adhvik Shetty looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed Britain’s food insecurity crisis and argues that social protection policies are necessary to prevent those most vulnerable to economic shocks from facing hunger...
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Africa Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Across Africa, states have adapted or expanded social protection measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These interventions provide valuable policy lessons and political opportunities to reimagine the social contract on the continent. The views,...
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Africa, South Africa, America, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico Monday, June 7, 2021
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this blog post belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org Whilst young people (aged 15 to 24) are an important beneficiary group of cash transfer programmes, most programmes...
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