Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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Responding to the impacts of COVID-19 in Western and Central Africa, the World Bank has supported the rapid...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, we have seen some remarkable developments in the fight for the labor rights of essential workers. This is in no small part related to the fact that many of us have finally understood and recognized...
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Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, America, Chile, United States, Asia, Thailand, Europe, Poland
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
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In a previous post we introduced a set of productive inclusion measures that governments in Burkina Faso,...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
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Tuesday, January 7, 2020
BLOG: On a recent visit to India, I noticed a few kids frolicking on the streets of New Delhi. Kumari (name changed), who was playing with her younger brothers, looked like any other six-year-old—except she was 11. A stunted child, not tall enough for...
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Africa, Senegal, America, Peru, Asia, India, Pakistan
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
BLOG: The Sahel region in West Africa is one of the poorest parts of the world. Around 40 percent of the populations of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Senegal live on less than $1.90 a day. The Sahel also has one of the youngest and...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, Senegal
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
BLOG: World leaders have a disappointing record when it comes to crises that take decades to unfold. Much greater investment in the prevention of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s could have saved millions of lives and billions of dollars 20 years later, for...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
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Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Humanitarian agencies are setting up innovative climate risk insurance policies to protect up to 1.3 million people in West Africa from catastrophic drought. The countries benefitting include Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and the Gambia. ...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal
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Friday, June 14, 2019
Very early in the morning, men and women who have traveled on foot, by bicycle, or by cart from surrounding neighborhoods and villages flock to Orange Money kiosks or the post office to collect the CFAF 25,000 allocation that they receive from the...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Le directeur général de la Caisse de sécurité sociale (Css), Assane Soumaré ,a invité ,mardi, les entreprises à internationaliser ou intégrer la prévention des risques professionnels dans leurs politiques.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Richer African countries such as Botswana and South Africa have operated welfare schemes for many years. Poorer ones are now rushing to do the same. From 2010 to 2015 the countries of sub-Saharan Africa launched an average of 14 schemes per year, up from...
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Africa, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania
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