Thursday, November 25, 2021
While great strides in poverty reduction have taken place in Colombia in the last decade, the number of people living below the poverty line increased by 6.8 percentage points since the start of the pandemic, reversing a decade of economic and...
Saturday, November 13, 2021
With the Covid-19 crisis, the urban informal workers, largely invisibilized by modern urban development, were visible at least on mainstream news, and social media. Those heart wrenching images and news, and the subsequent mobilisation of civil society...
Monday, October 25, 2021
Millions of people across the world have been forced into extreme poverty because of COVID-19. According to World Bank estimates, nearly 500 million Sri Lankans fell into poverty due to the pandemic. The population suffering from poverty (below the USD 3...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for African governments to strengthen social protection systems and fulfill people’s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living. Many African governments introduced measures like cash...
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Monday, October 11, 2021
As much as I hate to contribute towards the abandonment issues of a kitchen utensil, there’s a pot in my cupboard covered in dents that I can no longer use. Why? Because, just like you, I spent countless nights at the beginning of the pandemic standing...
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Today, at the Global Citizen Live event, Administrator Samantha Power announced nearly $297 million in humanitarian assistance to provide urgently needed food assistance, health care, water, and psychosocial support to address urgent humanitarian needs...
Friday, September 10, 2021
Eighty-five social protection program recipients were assisted by social welfare officers with their grocery shopping at the Sawani border, Naitasiri last week. In a government statement, recipients received shopping vouchers for the first week of every...
Monday, August 30, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increased number of social protection measures to help people cope with economic challenges. A total of 4648 policy measures that addressed the economic and health challenges of the pandemic were identified worldwide...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
The share of Americans living in poverty shrank to an estimated 9.2% in 2020, according to the Urban Institute, a think tank that closely tracks this rate with a widely used model. There were 29.3 million Americans living below the poverty line, the...
Monday, August 23, 2021
The Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare in collaboration with the European Union (EU) and the World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a special cash programme to support communities adversely affected by Covid-19 and...