Monday, June 7, 2021
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Lower-middle-income countries spend 1.4 percent of GDP on social assistance that reduces relative poverty by...
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America, Brazil, Asia, China, Oceania, Australia, New Zealand
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Governments need to tailor their financial support to citizens and organizations in response to COVID-19. The IMF recommends targeted support to vulnerable houses and focused support to viable firms. Support also needs to focus on a green, digital, and...
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this Op-Ed belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org
Everyone participates in the social contract every day, and we rarely stop to think about it. Yet social...
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Africa, South Sudan, America, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, United States, Asia, China, India, Europe, Denmark, United Kingdom
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020
China has pledged to lend more support to companies with multi-faceted measures in a renewed commitment to protecting jobs for its workforce amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, an official said Wednesday.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
China will take robust and multi-pronged measures to ensure that employment remains stable. The government will scale up support for flexible employment, boost job opportunities for people with disabilities, and tackle the stubborn issue of wage arrears...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
China will utilise 100 billion yuan ($14.9 billion) from its unemployment insurance fund as part of its efforts to support a vocational training scheme and stabilise employment, the cabinet said on Tuesday. "To keep economic operations within a...
Thursday, April 4, 2019
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 insurance and work...
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Starting from May 1, China will lower enterprise contributions to urban workers' basic aged-care insurance from 20 percent to 16 percent to reduce enterprises' burdens, Minister of Finance Liu Kun said Sunday. The country will strengthen efforts on...
Thursday, December 6, 2018
China’s government will introduce a set of key measures aiming to boost employment, according to guidelines published by China’s State Council, the cabinet.
The guidelines stated that companies with no layoffs or few layoffs can get back 50% of...
Thursday, May 19, 2016
There is a gap of $61 million every year in India required to get the poor to the level of earning $3.10 per capita per day, with a global requirement of $600 billion per year, through social transfers to eradicate poverty, a new UN labour agency report...
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America, Brazil, Asia, China, India, Europe, France
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