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Bhutan

develop_region: 
South-Asia
iso2: 
BT
iso3: 
BTN
Continent: 
Asia
Official name: 
Kingdom of Bhutan

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, 1,414 social protection measures have been either planned or implemented across 222 countries or territories as of December 2021. These included various social assistance, social insurance, and labor market measures. Social assistance measures constituted 55 per cent of such measures on average (in East Asia and Pacific, it is higher at 61 per cent and South Asia, it is at 70 per cent) and within that, 42 per cent were cash transfers (Gentilini and others, 2020).

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Gaps in coverage of the missing middle in South Asia

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Submitted by Luciano Caetano da Silva
on Mon, 25/07/2022 - 15:39
Man wearing a face mask driving a motorcycle.
Written by Luciano Silva, Isabela Franciscon and Marina Andrade, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) Countries across the globe have been deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It goes without saying that informal workers and firms, regardless of their income level, were more likely to suffer income or asset losses than formal workers during the pandemic [1] (Timmer et al. 2020). This is mainly due to their much lower level of access to social security, which is generally more available to formal workers via mandatory schemes. Indeed, informal workers and firms are often more deprived from access to social protection, frequently associated with their lack of coverage by social insurance and/or contributory schemes owing to various legal, financial or...Read more

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Since 2018, the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) has partnered with the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and its respective Country Offices to develop a series of comparative papers on social protection (SP) in the region, covering social expenditure, legal frameworks, design of flagship national non-contributory SP programmes—including their child and gender-sensitive features—the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis and the SP responses deployed, and findings from quasi-experimental impact evaluations.

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In the busy streets of Male, the capital of Maldives, Aminath Waheed picks up passengers, blazing a trail as the city’s only female taxi driver. In the hills of Nepal, 30-year-old Madhukala Adhikari works as a mobile mason, helping families rebuild houses that were destroyed in the 2015 earthquake. And in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Morsheda Begum is a garment worker turned successful entrepreneur, running her own tailoring shop and supporting her school-aged boys.

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Homenet South Asia

HomeNet South Asia is a regional network of home-based worker organisations spread across eight countries. These include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Founded in 2000, we are South Asia’s first and only network for home-based workers.

Through our initiatives and efforts, we aim to:

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Outline of Presentation

  • Brief Background
  • Budget Allocation & Expenditure
  • Achievements Update
  • Success Stories
  • Lesson Learnt, Issue and Challenges
  • Measures Adopted to address the challenges
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