Asia, India Thursday, December 9, 2021
The AAP has kept governance and social welfare as its key electoral narrative over the years, promising key reforms in health, education, water, electricity, and women empowerment. However, the most interesting aspect of its governance has been the subsidies...
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Oceania, New Zealand Monday, December 6, 2021
When Minister of Finance Grant Robertson announced in this year’s budget that his government was developing a social unemployment insurance scheme, people could have been forgiven for seeing this as largely positive. The views, thoughts and opinions presented...
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Africa Wednesday, December 1, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that African tax and social-benefit systems are currently ill-equipped to protect households from sudden income losses. Meaningful progress will require policymakers to reduce the size of the informal sector and improve the...
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Europe, United Kingdom Sunday, December 5, 2021
Perhaps the most important job that the state has is to protect children at risk of harm and abuse. Yet children’s social care is facing a mounting crisis that gets far less exposure than that confronting the NHS or even adult social care. The views, thoughts...
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Europe Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Street vendors are not often considered part of the labour movement. We are, after all, the workers who must resort to the informal economy to survive. But we are still workers, and we are not giving up on having the same access to rights and social...
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Asia, Cambodia Wednesday, November 3, 2021
In Cambodia, a street vendor like Chandary faces significant challenges, including income insecurity, poor sanitation, lack of social protection benefits, and different forms of harassment and discrimination. The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this...
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