Speaking at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, during an event to launch the Day, the WHO chief said that all people deserve access to health services, “when and where they need them, without financial hardship.” However, half the...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched a poverty reduction programme called "Ehsaas" and tweeted an elaborate policy document stating the initiative’s action plan.

The PKR80...

OPINION: Creating more jobs, improving human capital and raising people’s skills through a set of conditional transfers is a better option. Recently the Congress has announced its promise of income transfer of ₹72,...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said strengthening social protection for the poor and the neediest has been one of the Egyptian government’s priorities since the start of the economic reform program.

The ability of Kenyans to use financial products to enable them to cope with shocks such as ill-health has declined, according to a new household survey on financial health.

OPINION: Recently Papua, Yogyakarta and Central Java were hit hard by floods and landslides, killing at least 84 people and affecting over 11,000 families. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has confirmed that...

Innovation, access to rural credit – particularly for women – and improvements to rural social protection programmes are important tools to help family farmers in Southeast Asia improve their livelihoods and become more food secure...

China will lower the share borne by employers for urban workers' basic aged-care insurance to 16 percent starting from May 1, according to the State Council. The government will also lower enterprise contributions to unemployment...

THE Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) on Tuesday announced a 5% pension benefit increase for all its pensioners. The increase was effective 1 April 2019. GIPF's chief executive officer, David Nuyoma, said the fund...

Unemployed people derive significant psychological benefits from receiving a fixed amount of financial support from the state, according to a landmark experiment into basic income in Finland that highlights the disadvantages of the...

BLOG: Conditional cash transfers, considered by some as "magic bullet", actually carry significant-but uncounted-costs. In July 2013, I huddled closely with Yesenia Paqari (not her real name), a mother of two and a respected...

OPINION: Social policy in developing countries provides crucial assistance to women, but evidence shows that it is increasingly being limited to women who are mothers. India is a vivid case in point. Associating women with children...