Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Lawmakers on Monday reminded the Executive Department, particularly the Department of Finance, to fully implement the safety net provisions of the Tax Reform of Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law as the oil-price hike for diesel for January 2020 may...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Let us imagine that, after his retirement from active political life in 1890, Otto von Bismarck would have spent the last one hundred and thirty years lecturing and researching on social policy across the world. Most recently, he worked as an unpaid...
Country:
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Europe
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Monday, December 30, 2019
Around 80 percent of the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar remain entirely dependent of humanitarian aid. This new contribution enables WFP to continue its life saving food assistance in the camps through in-kind distribution and electronic vouchers (e-...
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Asia, Bangladesh, Europe, Germany
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Monday, December 30, 2019
BLOG: Spending on social protection interventions, such as the Senior Citizens Grant, is not a welfare cost, but is in fact an investment to the economy that demonstrates remarkable macro-economic impacts comparable to investment in other...
Monday, December 30, 2019
OPINION: Widespread under-nutrition, especially iron deficiency, determines a range of negative consequences impacting the welfare of individuals and families as well as the economic and social development of the nation. This economic, social...
Monday, December 30, 2019
Universal Healthcare will be launched early 2020, incorporating lessons from four pilot projects.President Uhuru Kenyatta launched the Universal Health Coverage pilot in Kisumu on December 13, last year, after year-long preparations, making Kenya the...
Monday, December 23, 2019
En noviembre de 2019, por invitación del Consejo Nacional de la Persona Envejeciente (CONAPE) tuvimos la oportunidad de conocer los avances en la atención de las personas mayores. En este artículo deseamos compartir nuestra experiencia sobre el terreno,...
Country:
Dominican Republic, America
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Friday, December 20, 2019
In 2019, 43,700 houses were completed in Cuba, as part of a program that plans to resolve the housing problem in 10 years, authorities from that sector reported to the Industry, Construction and Energy Commission of the National Assembly this Wednesday....
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
A new study in Pakistan has revealed a 15 percent reduction in stunting and 33 percent reduction in wasting in children at 24 months as a result of specialized nutritious foods (SNF), cash-based transfers, and social and behavioural change communication...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
OPINION: Earlier this month, the Trump administration approved a new rule for SNAP that will cut an estimated 700,000 unemployed people from the program. The administration argues that cutting people who are out of work off of SNAP will nudge them into...