Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Wales has become the latest country to explore the idea of a universal basic income, which gives every adult a fixed amount of money, regardless of their employment status. Announcing plans for a pilot scheme was a bold move by the first...
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Africa, Kenya, America, Canada, United States, Asia, South Korea, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
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Friday, April 30, 2021
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Nine months after European leaders agreed the European Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) of €672.5...
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Europe, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Researchers in Germany will give a group of people just over £1,000 a month, no strings attached, as part of an experiment to assess the potential benefits of introducing a wider universal basic income (UBI). The radical idea has attracted a growing...
Monday, March 23, 2020
After a decade as Europe's leading disciple of fiscal virtue, Germany is unleashing a flood of government cash to counter the devastating economic impact of the novel coronavirus.
Monday, February 3, 2020
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), with support from the Government of Germany, will improve the system of social services for families in eastern Ukraine. Last week, UNICEF signed memoranda with ten communities in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
The expansion of all-day care for primary school children in Germany would be self-financing "to a large extent," according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) published on Monday. From 2025 onwards, all primary school children...
Friday, November 15, 2019
OPINION: The German government has patted itself on the back. According to Christian Democratic Party (CDU) leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the basic pension model agreed upon by the CDU, Christian Social Union (CSU), and Social Democratic Party...
Thursday, May 23, 2019
The German Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Hubertus Heil, presented his reform to supplement the German basic pension on Wednesday.
According to the draft law, a pension supplement is planned from 2021 onwards for long-term, low-income earners...
Sunday, March 31, 2019
The Government of Germany has contributed EUR10 million (approximately US$11,300,000) to UNICEF’s ‘No Lost Generation’ initiative to provide education and social protection support to the most vulnerable children and youth in Syria, including internally...
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Syria, Germany, Asia, Europe
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Monday, December 24, 2018
El Ministerio Federal de Relaciones Exteriores de Alemania contribuyó con 4.5 millones de euros para apoyar a la operación de respuesta humanitaria que el Programa Mundial de Alimentos de las Naciones Unidas (WFP) viene brindando en Colombia y en el...
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America, Colombia, Ecuador, Europe, Germany
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