Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Social protection systems currently play a limited role in supporting people with disabilities across much of the globe. While some countries achieve broad social protection coverage for persons with disabilities through a combination of income security...
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Humanitarian needs have reached an unprecedented high. Today, around 339 million require lifesaving humanitarian assistance. Multiple protracted conflicts, coupled with a rise in global food prices and the increasingly devastating impacts of climate...
Thursday, June 23, 2022
While structural inequality continues to create discrimination against people with disabilities in Indonesia, a shift to a human-rights based approach is a chance to bridge the gap, Dian Maya Safitri writes.
As they do across the world, people with...
Friday, August 20, 2021
Many Americans have trouble covering their costs of living with income solely from Social Security. Now, a bill has been reintroduced in Congress aimed at reducing the risk that older Americans, women and people of color will live in poverty despite...
Monday, July 5, 2021
The World Bank, in collaboration with the Government of Lesotho, released a new report assessing the performance of Lesotho’s social protection policies and programs. As the country continues to face weak growth and limited fiscal resources further...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
UNICEF's cash transfer programme has played a key played a key role in helping children access education, suggests a new study released today on maximizing the impact of cash transfers for vulnerable adolescents in Jordan.
Monday, June 7, 2021
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Lower-middle-income countries spend 1.4 percent of GDP on social assistance that reduces relative poverty by...
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America, Brazil, Asia, China, Oceania, Australia, New Zealand
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Around 16 lakh more elderly citizens, widows, and people with disabilities are likely to get government benefits from next fiscal year. The amount of the cash allowance will be the Tk 500 per month received by current beneficiaries, said finance ministry...
Monday, April 26, 2021
Developing countries have used most of their COVID-19 recovery funds to bail out big business, neglecting millions of people who have been pushed into poverty including cash-in-hand workers, women and the disabled, a study showed on Thursday.
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Africa, Kenya, Sierra Leone, South Africa, America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Asia, Bangladesh, India, Nepal
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Friday, April 23, 2021
No fewer than 117, 424 Poor and Vulnerable Households (PVHHs) in the Kaduna State Social Register have benefited from various social protection interventions in the state from 2017 to date.