Monday, November 22, 2021
India’s demographic profile is a young one compared to most other countries, but it will soon be showing more grey around the edges. The over-60 age category is expected to nearly double as a share of the total population within the next three decades...
Sunday, November 14, 2021
The Prime Minister recently announced a 120-billion-rupee subsidy programme to mitigate the hardships of the inflation-hit public. He also lauded the government’s flagship social protection programme, the Ehsaas Programme (EP), for collecting data on the...
Thursday, October 28, 2021
BRAC’s Graduation approach empowers women to challenge harmful gender norms that impede upon their independence, dignity, and aspirations. Gender norms are social norms defining acceptable and appropriate actions for women and men in a given group or...
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Africa, Kenya, Asia, Bangladesh
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Sunday, October 17, 2021
Sri Lanka has a great track record in raising living standards and reducing poverty. In the decade preceding the COVID-19 crisis poverty was declining. The share of poor people came down from 16.2 percent in 2012/13 to 11 percent in 2016—measured at...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for African governments to strengthen social protection systems and fulfill people’s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living. Many African governments introduced measures like cash...
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Africa, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda
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Monday, October 11, 2021
With India performing dismally in the domain of care work, and the pandemic having worsened the care crisis due to school and child care centre closures, along with mounting domestic work, it is imperative for policy responses to recognise and address...
Thursday, October 7, 2021
The World Bank, in collaboration with the Government of South Africa, released a new report assessing the country’s social assistance programs and systems. In an environment of high unemployment, persistent poverty, weak economic growth and shrinking...
Thursday, October 7, 2021
South Africa spends more on social assistance than most other countries globally, but this aid is still not available to a large share of the working-age members of its population, given unemployment benefits are available only to people who work in the...
Friday, October 1, 2021
Budget reconciliation negotiations among Democrats have hit an impasse over Senator Joe Manchin’s worries about extending the Child Tax Credit (CTC) without a work requirement. As he put it in his agreement with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world’s most vulnerable populations through lost lives, health, jobs, incomes, assets, and education. The World Bank’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS) help identify the main fault lines along which the pandemic’...
