Mercredi, 24 Juin 2024
With the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approaching, significant strides have been made, yet considerable work remains to be done. Multilateral cooperation stands as the linchpin for accelerating progress towards these...
Mercredi, 24 Juin 2024
Local organizations understand the needs of their communities best, yet they only receive 2.1% of donor money as of 2022, according to research consultancy Development Initiatives. What is preventing international NGOs and implementers...
Mardi, 23 Juin 2024
Conditional cash transfers in Nicaragua during primary school led to higher schooling and earnings in adulthood, but mechanisms differed by sex. Interventions aimed at increasing the nutrition, health, and education of children are often motivated...
Mercredi, 17 Juin 2024
Oman has launched the implementation of new social insurance maternity benefits that are set to significantly improve labour market opportunities for women in the Sultanate. The new scheme is part of ambitious and wide-ranging social protection reforms...
Jeudi, 11 Juin 2024
Viet Nam’s social assistance schemes provide monthly unconditional benefits to the most vulnerable people in poor and disadvantaged households, including people with disabilities and orphans. Phuong’s story illustrates how social protection...
Mardi, 9 Juin 2024
A pension system is at the heart of social protection. By ensuring income security for older persons and other vulnerable groups, it prevents poverty, reduces inequality, and smooths consumption. A pension system also affects the working population’s...
Mardi, 9 Juin 2024
Yemen’s social protection system is failing to support its population adequately. Years of conflict have left millions vulnerable, struggling with poverty, hunger, and displacement. This is due to two main issues: a fragmented structure lacking a central...
Lundi, 8 Juin 2024
In recent years, South Asia has been beset with an unprecedented combination of negative shocks. In Sri Lanka, an economic crisis on the heels of COVID-19 pushed approximately 3 million people into poverty. In Pakistan, the devastating 2022 floods...
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Vendredi, 5 Juin 2024
Conflicts undermine the ability of states to provide social protection and other social services. Yemen is no exception. The war caused a cumulative economic contraction of about 50% over the period 2014-2020 and reduced the annual GDP growth rate to...
Jeudi, 4 Juin 2024
Every country in the Pacific, as well as Timor-Leste, has some level of formal social protection system. Yet, these systems are poorly understood globally, and are often, perhaps unfairly, judged as being nascent. That is the context for recent research...
