Thursday, February 17, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed an estimated 124 million people into extreme poverty globally, the first increase in extreme poverty in 20 years. To meet the magnitude of this need, governments around the world have dramatically ramped up social...
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Friday, February 4, 2022
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training on February 4 announced a third round of government cash assistance for 5,576 laid-off workers from 42 factories and other select businesses in the garment and tourism sectors with operations suspended due...
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Expanding access to social protection, including income transfers, is key to reaching the Sustainable Development Goal of ending poverty in all its forms everywhere. While there has been progress in recent decades, more than 4 billion people are still...
Monday, January 10, 2022
Today, more than a year after the outbreak of the pandemic, it would be difficult to find a Paraguayan who does not know of Pytyvõ, perhaps the most prominent economic initiative undertaken as part of the government’s National Emergency Plan to mitigate...
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Perhaps the most important job that the state has is to protect children at risk of harm and abuse. Yet children’s social care is facing a mounting crisis that gets far less exposure than that confronting the NHS or even adult social care.
The...
Friday, December 3, 2021
Bangladesh accounts for four percent of stunted children globally which has a major impact on learning outcomes. Poorer households bear a disproportionate share of the burden of stunting and have limited access to early childhood development...
Thursday, November 18, 2021
On November 2, 2021, Singapore’s Parliament passed the amended Central Provident Fund (CPF) Act and the Retirement and Re-Employment Act. The CPF is the obligatory savings and pension plan for Singaporeans and permanent residents that fund their...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Prompted by a challenge from Tesla founder Elon Musk, the United Nations has released a plan for how it would spend nearly $7 billion to combat hunger around the world. The proposal comes three weeks after David Beasley, executive director of the U.N.'s...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Policy responses to Covid-19 have encouraged discussion of the future scope of social assistance, and social protection. Social assistance infrastructure – registries, payment systems, poverty maps – facilitated the rapid deployment of large-scale...
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Social Protection in Kenya has continued to grow in leaps and bounds since 2004. Social Protection interventions aim at ensuring that all Kenyans live in dignity and are able to meet their social and economic needs. A primary driver of these...