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...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Flexible workplace policies might help improve gender gaps in employment but they can also weaken women's position in the labour market.
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Thursday, January 20, 2022
Extreme poverty in West Africa rose by nearly three per cent in 2020, another fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN-backed report launched on Thursday that looks at the socio-impact of the crisis has revealed. The proportion of people living on less...
Friday, December 10, 2021
Despite more than three-quarters of the region’s population being legally entitled to health protection, pervasive gaps in legal coverage, lack of awareness on rights coupled with practical difficulties and impediments to accessing services leaves huge...
Thursday, November 25, 2021
While great strides in poverty reduction have taken place in Colombia in the last decade, the number of people living below the poverty line increased by 6.8 percentage points since the start of the pandemic, reversing a decade of economic and...
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...
Monday, November 22, 2021
India’s demographic profile is a young one compared to most other countries, but it will soon be showing more grey around the edges. The over-60 age category is expected to nearly double as a share of the total population within the next three decades...
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 28, 2021
BRAC’s Graduation approach empowers women to challenge harmful gender norms that impede upon their independence, dignity, and aspirations. Gender norms are social norms defining acceptable and appropriate actions for women and men in a given group or...
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Africa, Kenya, Asia, Bangladesh
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for African governments to strengthen social protection systems and fulfill people’s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living. Many African governments introduced measures like cash...
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Africa, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda
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