Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Around the world, governments are using automation to help deliver public services like food, housing, and cash assistance to people. The World Bank is one of the biggest drivers of this trend, providing governments with loans and technical support to...
Friday, November 11, 2022
Poverty is a well-established risk factor for violence against women and children—but how much do we really know about this relationship and how to effectively break the cycle? The authors round up evidence from the recent biannual Sexual Violence...
Thursday, October 20, 2022
The World Bank describes South Africa’s approach to social protection as an effective mechanism in addressing both poverty and inequality, underpinned by ‘a combination of commitment, leadership, backing from the Constitution, focus on technical...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
For Indonesia’s social protection policies to properly advance gender equality, they must do more for women outside their traditional social roles, Vania Budianto writes.
Indonesian social protection policies have gone through significant...
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Targeted social protection programs intended to cushion people from the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have only had limited success in protecting human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Latin American governments took the unprecedented step of including informal workers in emergency relief legislation. Informal workers comprise a significant share of Latin American countries’ economically active population...
Sunday, November 14, 2021
The Prime Minister recently announced a 120-billion-rupee subsidy programme to mitigate the hardships of the inflation-hit public. He also lauded the government’s flagship social protection programme, the Ehsaas Programme (EP), for collecting data on the...
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...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
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We know the economic impacts of COVID-19 have been severe. Advanced and developing countries alike have...
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Africa, Angola, Burundi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Asia, North Korea
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
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As climate-related natural disasters occur with increasing frequency, disproportionally impacting poorer...
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Africa, Ethiopia, America, Mexico, Asia, Bangladesh, India, Philippines, Vietnam
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