Thursday, February 17, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed an estimated 124 million people into extreme poverty globally, the first increase in extreme poverty in 20 years. To meet the magnitude of this need, governments around the world have dramatically ramped up social...
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Africa, Togo, Asia, Bangladesh
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Monday, December 6, 2021
In this blog, we summarize five studies completed in the last two years that examine impacts of cash, cash-for-work and cash plus programmes on both violent discipline of children and male intimate partner violence against women (IPV) from diverse LMICs...
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Africa, Mali, Rwanda, America, Colombia, Asia, Bangladesh, Philippines
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Tuesday, November 23, 2021
In the busy streets of Male, the capital of Maldives, Aminath Waheed picks up passengers, blazing a trail as the city’s only female taxi driver. In the hills of Nepal, 30-year-old Madhukala Adhikari works as a mobile mason, helping families rebuild...
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Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
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Tuesday, August 10, 2021
The Government of Bangladesh has allocated 17.83 per cent of the total budget for fiscal 2021-22 for Social Safety Net Programmes (SSNPs). The coverage is diverse; it includes programmes related to poverty eradication, education, health, infrastructure,...
Monday, June 21, 2021
Increasing public spending and widening social protection measures with a proper registry of people could prove effective in reviving the economy during the pandemic of COVID-19. Brazil, for instance, did not face complex challenges in disbursing the...
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America, Brazil, Asia, Bangladesh, China, Vietnam
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Saturday, June 12, 2021
UNICEF Bangladesh’s Chief of Child Protection, Natalie McCauley, speaks about what drives child labour and how Bangladesh can combat—and eventually eliminate—it, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Bangladesh has expanded its social safety net programmes by increasing the budgetary allocation by 12.5 percent in the fiscal year 2021-22 as part of the efforts to alleviate the plight of lower-income and vulnerable groups which have been hit hardest by...
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...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
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As climate-related natural disasters occur with increasing frequency, disproportionally impacting poorer...
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Africa, Ethiopia, America, Mexico, Asia, Bangladesh, India, Philippines, Vietnam
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Monday, May 17, 2021
There is a lot to learn from the implementation experience in health and social protection. We did not have the benefit last year of knowing what we know now about how the policy response to the pandemic works and where the fault lines are.