Thursday, September 22, 2022
Welfare states, where they still exist, have rapidly become targeted welfare states, preoccupied with the need to exclude persons deemed ineligible for certain welfare measures. Means testing is one way of fine-tuning targeting, i.e...
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Africa, South Africa, America, Brazil, Asia, China, India, Europe, Russia
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Monday, September 27, 2021
Well-designed social registries are key to ensuring that the development gains promised by technology are realised while enabling transformative innovations for welfare-delivery at population scale. With increasing digitisation of our lives, we are...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
The National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), launched on 15 August 1995, was aimed at providing benefits to poor income households having elderly members in the family or needing support after the death of a wage earner. The NSAP was formulated to...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday launched a scheme and an online portal to provide financial assistance to families who lost their loved ones to COVID-19 and asked officials not to found faults in their claim applications.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
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Despite being a “high-touch” business, microfinance institutions found ways to connect with their clients...
Monday, June 28, 2021
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Pooja, eight, and Rahul, five, lost their father in April 2020 and mother in May 2021 to Covid-19. Their...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
The global Covid-19 pandemic has acted as a catalyst for technology-intensive initiatives for welfare distribution, coming at a high cost to human rights and inclusion: enforcing automated discrimination, exacerbating existing inequalities and...
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Africa, Uganda, America, Bolivia, Colombia, Asia, India
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021
The Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority (PFRDA) is in talks with the government for an overhaul of the National Pension Scheme (NPS), says Mr Supratim Bandyopadhyay, the chairman of the pension regulator.
Monday, May 24, 2021
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The need for higher allocation for the social safety net programmes (SSNPs) has never been felt so badly than...
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America, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Asia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, South Korea
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Monday, May 10, 2021
Covid-19 related deaths in India are expected to double in the coming weeks. People across socioeconomic classes are being cremated en masse in large holes in the ground. The ordeal doesn’t even end with death. Medical bills are piling up, a burden large...