Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Workers in the informal economy do not usually benefit from social protection because they - or their employers - do not contribute to any scheme or fund. It is no surprise, then, that extending social protection has become central to strategies of...
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Nepal’s newly elected government should prioritize coverage for all children and add coverage for millions of informal workers as it considers changes to the existing system, Human Rights Watch said today. Nepal’s social protection system fails to...
Friday, December 9, 2022
This blog answers two simple questions: how do migrant sending communities feel about temporary migration schemes, and does scheme participation affect these views? I use the Tongan household component of the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey to share some...
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...
Monday, October 31, 2022
An SP-ODE can be thought of as a unified, digital platform to access welfare schemes spanning different departments of the government. It is a multi-sided platform, always involving the citizen and the government and, in more mature systems, also,...
Thursday, October 20, 2022
The World Bank describes South Africa’s approach to social protection as an effective mechanism in addressing both poverty and inequality, underpinned by ‘a combination of commitment, leadership, backing from the Constitution, focus on technical...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Climate change is intensifying food insecurity across sub-Saharan Africa, where Russia’s war in Ukraine and the pandemic are also adding to food shortages and high prices.
Climate events, which destroy crops and disrupt food transport, are...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
For Indonesia’s social protection policies to properly advance gender equality, they must do more for women outside their traditional social roles, Vania Budianto writes.
Indonesian social protection policies have gone through significant...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Child poverty, calculated by the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), fell to its lowest recorded level in 2021, declining 46% from 9.7% in 2020 to 5.2% in 2021, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today.
In contrast, when calculated by the...
Monday, September 12, 2022
‘Parametric’ insurance could offer farmers quicker relief when they lose their crops to floods, storms, and other climate-driven calamities. Climate change is causing frequent heat waves, erratic rainfall, flooding, and other extreme weather events that...
