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This policy brief intends to do the following: describe how the current public health care system in the Philippines failed to reduce healthcare-related out-of-pocket payments (OOPPs) for many citizens; present data on PhilHealth's unstable financial situation which limits the public insurance system's capacity to finance free health care; and outline a Cuban- & UK-inspired practical plan to build a Philippine National Health Services (NHS).

In response to the impact of Covid-19 on poverty and inequality in the region, the Economic Commission for Latin America ECLAC has called for Latin American countries to build welfare states. Is this the right call? This blog, and two that will follow, considers whether this is the right objective for Latin American countries. We begin with a critical perspective on welfare states.

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Slide presentation of the webinar held on 23 August 2018. About 250 million children under five years of age in low and middle-income countries are at risk of not attaining their developmental potential because of extreme poverty and stunting. The effects reach far beyond the individual lives of children and affect families, communities and the development of nations. In response, UNICEF’s ECD programmes support parents, caregivers and communities to help vulnerable children get a fair start in life.

This is WFP’s new global hunger monitoring system that tracks and predicts hunger in near real-time.

(COVID-19)

As of January 2022, a total of 3,856 social protection and labor measures were planned or implemented by 223 economies. This constitutes a net increase of 523 measures, or 15.6 percent since the last update in May 2021. While noteworthy, such increase is the lowest among net additions observed over previous semesters. In fact, the global pace of measures’ introduction over January 2020-January 2022 has been slowing down. This report focuses on the real-time review of country measures in terms of social protection and job responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19).

In addition to collecting data of government policy responses to the Covid-19, our members also write reports and research notes about the countries they are documenting as well as particular Covid-19 issues. Please browse these reports and research notes below.