Monday, March 29, 2021
Since the mid-1990s, new approaches to poverty reduction have been introduced in countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Some have involved income transfer programmes that target poorer citizens based on various means tests. Most have targeted...
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Africa, South Africa, America, Brazil
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Latin American countries are implementing conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs as a strategy to combat poverty and promote economic stability. CCT programs provide money to those living in poverty on the condition that the citizens fulfill specific...
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America, Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua
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Monday, February 22, 2021
A sum of $81 million has been allocated in the 2021/22 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives, towards the continuation of the Integrated Support to the Jamaica Social Protection Strategy project.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2021
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region 12 (Soccsksargen) has vowed to further strengthen this year the implementation of its social protection programs, which served around 1.1 million residents in the area in 2020.
Monday, January 11, 2021
The government has requested the World Bank for a loan of $600 million to roll out an innovative hybrid social protection scheme to support its aspirations around risk mitigation and financial inclusion among the poor and informal workers.
Monday, November 30, 2020
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Healthy forests are critical to addressing the climate emergency. If deforestation is stopped and degraded...
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America, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Asia, Indonesia
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Friday, November 6, 2020
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My first job in the public sector was for a cash transfer programme called Ellas Hacen (They Do) in...
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America, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Asia, India
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Thursday, July 9, 2020
The newly formed Government of the 33rd Dáil has committed to trialling Basic Income (BI) in Ireland over the next five years. The announcement was made in the Programme for Government (PfG) agreed between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party. The...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
About 12 million people in Thailand, almost 1 in 5, are aged 60 or over, more than half of them are women. And according to the 2017 Survey of Older Persons, 32% of those in their 80s indicated that their health was poor or very poor.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
The relief programs supporting Americans through the pandemic are also demonstrating the viability of a bold proposal for reducing poverty: basic income. The idea of basic income -- paying a monthly fixed amount to each person in the country -- has been...
