Vendredi, 9 Décembre 2022
This blog answers two simple questions: how do migrant sending communities feel about temporary migration schemes, and does scheme participation affect these views? I use the Tongan household component of the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey to share some...
Mercredi, 27 Juin 2022
While the COVID-19 pandemic and current cost of living crisis has exacerbated social inequalities and economic insecurity, it has also opened a window of opportunity to explore new forms of policy innovation to build back a fairer and more economically...
Mercredi, 3 Novembre 2021
COVID is forcing us to rethink and recalibrate our approach because many people have lost their income, their jobs, their family members, their assets and their savings. This has led to poverty, poor health and much more unbearable situations to the...
Samedi, 23 Octobre 2021
Sri Lanka needs to work on its pre-retirement social-security systems such as unemployment benefits and wage support as COVID-19 pandemic slashed 150,000 jobs in the country affecting mostly youth and middle-skilled workers, a Colombo-based think tank...
Dimanche, 17 Octobre 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday released a statement thanking Canadian small business owners for their “dedication, perseverance, and innovation,” less than a week before a number COVID-19 pandemic financial support programs for...
Mercredi, 29 Septembre 2021
Throughout the pandemic, social protection practitioners have been drawing on past experience and established ‘mantras’ to support governments and emergency actors to respond to the crisis. Valentina Barca, the Team Lead for the FCDO-GIZ-DFAT-funded...
Dimanche, 12 Septembre 2021
It was the devastation of the Second World War that gave birth to the UK’s welfare state, and now, argues Louise Casey, the covid-19 pandemic provides the government with a unique opportunity to fundamentally overhaul it.
Dimanche, 29 Août 2021
Social protection includes policies, programmes and measures aimed at ensuring a basic standard of living for a nation’s people, and protecting them against major shocks such as serious illnesses, injury and unemployment. The Covid-19 pandemic that...
Samedi, 14 Août 2021
In an attempt to protect from economic disaster in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments enacted an unprecedented number of social protection programs. According to the World Bank, Social protection “traditionally consists of labor markets,...
Jeudi, 12 Août 2021
The furlough schemes introduced at speed in March 2020 have protected millions of jobs and livelihoods during the pandemic. While far from perfect, the schemes have been a lifeline for millions of workers– supporting over 14 million people. Rather than...
