Africa Tuesday, July 12, 2022
COVID-19 brought into sharp focus the low level of social protection coverage of the self-employed through contributory schemes in African countries.
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Global Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Both savings and social protection systems are important, and, on some level, they respond to similar needs: they can help us navigate uncertain futures, stabilise consumption across financial peaks and troughs, and enable us to invest in all kinds of...
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Global Tuesday, November 30, 2021
As social protection responses to COVID-19 have largely piggy-backed on pre-pandemic systems, they have deepened inequalities between those with access to social protection and those without. Although unprecedented attempts were made to expand social...
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America, Brazil Wednesday, March 17, 2021
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this blog post belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org. Across the globe, over two billion people are engaged in informal labour. Informal workers continue to face an...
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Africa, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, America, Mexico, Peru, United States, Asia, India, Thailand, Europe, Bulgaria Sunday, November 22, 2020
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this blog post belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org. Carmen Almeida, 56, worries about keeping in touch with her fellow domestic workers. Most haven’t worked since early...
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Africa, Cape Verde, Namibia, America, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Asia, Bangladesh, Thailand Thursday, October 1, 2020
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this blog post belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org. The COVID-19 pandemic represents a huge challenge to governments around the globe, not only as a health emergency,...
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