Friday, June 25, 2021
The article discusses the use of social invesment as a strategy to lift people out of poverty in Nigeria. In the last quarter of 2020, the unemployment rate increased to 33%. With a Gini coefficient of 35.1, Nigeria is one of the eight countries with the...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
With the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Bangladesh on 8 March 2020 and the initiation of a lockdown on 26 March 2020, the livelihoods of a significant number of people were under serious threat — with women most likely to suffer the worst...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
People living in remote communities in Tonga are expected to have better access to a range of social support services when teams are mobilized there under a pilot mobile service launched on February 5.
The mobile service, called “Rights, Empowerment...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
After assuming power in 2011, the Patriotic Front (PF) government has continued to make strides in bridging the gap between the rich and the poor through the implementation of social protection programmes in the country. Social protection programmes that...
Monday, May 28, 2018
Kazakh Vice Minister of Labour and Social Protection Nurzhan Altayev held an open lecture at Nur Otan Party headquarters dedicated to the country’s nationwide mass entrepreneurship programme.The unemployed, self-employed, small business entities and...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
A US$200 million emergency package to provide social support and employment for communities devastated in Iraq’s ongoing armed conflicts has been agreed by the World Bank.
The Emergency Social Stabilization and Resilience Project (ESSRP) aims to...
Monday, October 9, 2017
Harmonisation of the microfinance sector policies in East African Community (EAC) will improve financial inclusion, ensure efficiency and support poverty eradication efforts across the bloc, according to the Association of Microfinance Institutions in...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
The government of Ghana says, it will set aside 50 per cent of the Micro Finance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC), funds for female applicants as part of its strategic interventions to ensure gender equality and women empowerment. MASLOC provides micro...