Thursday, October 7, 2021
South Africa spends more on social assistance than most other countries globally, but this aid is still not available to a large share of the working-age members of its population, given unemployment benefits are available only to people who work in the...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
The International Labour Organization's (ILO) 2020-2022 World Social Protection Report revealed that 46.9% of the world’s population are “covered by at least one social protection benefit”, excluding health. Arab states fall below the global average, at...
Country:
Africa, Asia, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen
Read More
Monday, August 30, 2021
In this post, Sherwin Gabriel and colleagues present results from modeling the economic effects of short-term social protection measures in South Africa, especially targeted at lower income households, in the face of new waves of infection and pressure...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
The economic disruptions of the pandemic showed the shortcomings in Canada’s out-of-date social safety net. Issues like the inability of the Employment Insurance (EI) program to process a large number of claims in a short period of time, self-employed or...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
The Government of Bangladesh has allocated 17.83 per cent of the total budget for fiscal 2021-22 for Social Safety Net Programmes (SSNPs). The coverage is diverse; it includes programmes related to poverty eradication, education, health, infrastructure,...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this blog post belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org
For the first time in U.S. history, the government is establishing an allowance for families with children,...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this Op-Ed belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org
One of the questions I attempt to answer in this article is what we might learn from social policy and...
Country:
Africa, South Africa, America, Brazil
Read More
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...
Country:
Africa, South Sudan, America, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, United States, Asia, China, India, Europe, Denmark, United Kingdom
Read More
Thursday, March 18, 2021
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this blog post belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org
Household incomes in Ecuador were badly hit by the pandemic, despite the government’s emergency grant...
Thursday, February 4, 2021
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this blog post belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org.
COVID-19 has hit Latin America hard on the health, economic, and social fronts. Week after week, Brazil,...
Country:
America, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru
Read More