Thursday, September 22, 2022
Welfare states, where they still exist, have rapidly become targeted welfare states, preoccupied with the need to exclude persons deemed ineligible for certain welfare measures. Means testing is one way of fine-tuning targeting, i.e...
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Africa, South Africa, America, Brazil, Asia, China, India, Europe, Russia
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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...
Friday, September 9, 2022
Despite commendable progress on legal and policy safeguards for older persons, a UN-appointed independent human rights expert said on Friday that Nigeria must implement already adopted measures to protect them against ageism and age discrimination, both...
Friday, September 2, 2022
In recent years, there has been a push backed by some of the largest donor and relief organisations to plant the seeds of social protection systems in even the most difficult protracted crisis settings. The case for doing so seems compelling enough: to...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Consumers in South Africa continue to grapple with a high cost of living, particularly with the latest rising fuel costs. In the last several months, the price for one litre of 95 octane petrol (inland) has risen by 36.4%, from R19.61...
Monday, August 22, 2022
Privacy International researched a number of social safety-net projects financed by the World Bank during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article reflects on how certain aspects of social protection projects can inadvertently lead to excessive surveillance...
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Africa, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, America, Haiti, Asia, Jordan, Lebanon
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Friday, August 12, 2022
The Federal Government said the introduction of digitalized cash transfer payment will help in addressing some lapses while operating the analog payment system.
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
When the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession pushed 120 million people worldwide into extreme poverty in 2020, many countries relied on social-protection measures to cushion the blow. By May 2021, a total of 3,333 such schemes had been planned...
Thursday, July 21, 2022
A high school drop-out, Evelyn Nakabuye, who lives on the outskirts of Kampala, survived years of joblessness. She lived in a small house with her four children and her mother. “I was jobless and stranded,” she says. That all changed in 2018 when Evelyn...
Thursday, July 21, 2022
COVID-19 has kept more than 168 million children around the world out of school for more than one year, but as schools reopen it is important not to forget another stubborn and powerful barrier keeping children out of the classroom—distance....
