Tuesday, December 15, 2020
New Oxfam research shows that over a third of the world’s population has had no public money to cope with the effects of the pandemic. A new report “Shelter from the Storm”, done in partnership with Development Pathways, reviewed government schemes...
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Africa, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, America, Bolivia, Guatemala, Asia, Cambodia, Indonesia
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Sunday, November 22, 2020
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Carmen Almeida, 56, worries about keeping in touch with her fellow domestic workers. Most haven’t worked...
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Africa, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, America, Mexico, Peru, United States, Asia, India, Thailand, Europe, Bulgaria
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Thursday, November 19, 2020
As October ended, so did the caregiver top-up of the Child Support Grant (CSG). Finance Minister Tito Mboweni, in his medium term budget speech delivered in Parliament last month, said government will not extend this grant top-up of R500. This top-up...
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Domestic workers are the country's unsung heroines and must have access to the Compensation Fund. This ruling, made on Thursday by the Constitutional Court, overturned the law that made domestic workers the only group of employees who couldn't claim...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Some NGO’s want the government to make the Covid-19 emergency relief measures permanent from October, especially the one that allows citizens aged 18-59 to access state assistance for the first time ever, to create a basic income grant. The country had...
Monday, September 14, 2020
The evidence is now clear, and the COVID-19 crisis has only made it more pressing that “now is the time” for universal child benefits – this was the message offered from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) webinar on the subject last week. The...
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Global, Africa, Kenya, South Africa, Asia, Mongolia
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