Asia, Philippines Monday, October 3, 2016
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) schemes like the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Philippines can help reduce inequality – a necessary component to reaching the world’s goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, according to a new report by the...
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Asia, Bangladesh Sunday, October 2, 2016
Speakers at a discussion on Sunday underscored the need for making the existing social protection programmes more climate sensitive by taking community-based adaptive social protection schemes to address poverty and cope with the aftermath of any disaster.
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America, Antigua and Barbuda Saturday, September 3, 2016
As government moves to enact the National Social Protection Bill, the country’s Minister of Social Transformation and Human Resource Development, Samantha Marshall, remains adamant that it will only benefit the poor and vulnerable.
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America, Argentina, Mexico, Asia, Philippines Wednesday, August 10, 2016
“Don’t do what we have done” was one of the resounding messages Santiago Levy told an audience of development professionals, government representatives, civil society, private sector and members of academia during the Asian Development Bank’s Social...
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Asia Monday, August 15, 2016
Governments can further expand and finance their social protection programs through an increased focus on and commitment to infrastructure investment, according to Naoyuki Yoshino, dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute.
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Global, Asia, Philippines Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Social protection issues are getting more attention than ever as the international community attempts to pull people out of poverty, provide decent employment for the jobless, and protect the vulnerable from disaster and health risks through the Sustainable...
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