The Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report 2020 highlighted the negative impact of climate change and fragility and conflict on the global efforts to reduce poverty and grow prosperity, noting that up to 132 million people could be...
The Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report 2020 highlighted the negative impact of climate change and fragility and conflict on the global efforts to reduce poverty and grow prosperity, noting that up to 132 million people could be...
In Cambodia, a street vendor like Chandary faces significant challenges, including income insecurity, poor sanitation, lack of social protection benefits, and different forms of harassment and discrimination.
...The International Labour Organisation says in 2020 over three-quarters of the world still do not have adequate social protection coverage and over three billion people lack any social protection. They often fall into poverty,...
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...
The emerging and developing economies of Europe and Central Asia have been hit hard by the health, social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 978,000 people have lost their lives and more than 48 million have...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Latin American governments took the unprecedented step of including informal workers in emergency relief legislation. Informal workers comprise a significant share of Latin American countries’...
Social protection benefits expenditure as a percentage of GDP between 2019 and 2020 has increased in almost all EU Member States, with the largest jump recorded in Cyprus and estimated at +2.2 per cent.
It will be a major score for expectant and lactating mothers working in the informal sector if the government adopts a newlyproposed maternity scheme. The Maternal Income Protection Benefits (MIPB) joins Linda Mama that was...
New and innovative social protection solutions are urgently required to strike a balance between the provision of safety nets, promote financial resilience and human capital development, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri...
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...
Far from the limelight, global leaders are on the cusp of striking a historic and unprecedented financing deal for spurring pandemic recovery through the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), a mechanism overseen...
India’s demographic profile is a young one compared to most other countries, but it will soon be showing more grey around the edges. The over-60 age category is expected to nearly double as a share of the total population within the...
