Wednesday, December 4, 2024
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has dedicated the equivalent of 3 million euros from its budget to ensure the continued rollout and payment of social allowances to 15,000 individuals with severe disabilities and nearly 18,000 older persons in the West...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Do citizens consider the pension system fair, and what would they like to change? How well do Ukrainians understand the pension calculation formula and the factors that affect the pension sum? How confident are citizens that the pension system will be...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
After a year that has seen climate change destroy agriculture in regions already struggling with high level of food insecurity and malnutrition, attention at COP29 turns to food systems. In 2022, 148 million children globally were ‘stunted’ (...
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Poverty headcount in Asia and the Pacific could increase by more than 15 percentage points in some countries, given the current low social protection expenditure levels in the region, according to new estimates. In a pessimistic scenario, about 266...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Globally, the number of people aged 65 or older is increasing as a share of the population, which raises the question: will these older adults receive a predictable and adequate pensions? That question is one that has enormous consequences for old-age...
Friday, October 4, 2024
The ILO’s new World Social Protection Report provides a comprehensive global overview of the state of social protection and addresses the gravest threat to social justice: the climate crisis. It illustrates how social protection systems protect against...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
On a languid Tuesday morning in January, the Treasury Office in Aizawl, Mizoram – my home state in Northeast India – was shaken awake by a disgruntled elderly man. Demanding his pension payment, the man brandished a chempui, a machete typically used for...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Future global shocks demonstrate the capacity for extensive and devastating repercussions that surpass national borders. Ten years into the future, global risks such as failure to mitigate climate change, failure of climate change adaptation, and natural...
Monday, August 12, 2024
Governments in the Pacific and Timor-Leste have been investing in formal social protection for more than 50 years, but the last two decades have seen massive shifts. Across the region, expenditure on social assistance programs has almost doubled, and...
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Households that received the transfer were far less likely to go a day without eating, reported higher child food consumption and wellbeing after the floods hit, lost fewer assets, and had better earnings potential post-flooding. And these benefits...
