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...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
While 2021 was dubbed the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, the number of children in labor —160 million at 2020 — rose for the first time in two decades, according to estimates by the International...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Asia and Pacific economies have enjoyed remarkable achievements over the past few decades, but face serious challenges. The tax share in the developing economies of the region remains lower than is necessary to support adequate public services (Highfield...
Monday, April 18, 2022
Just as Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) was recovering its pre-pandemic levels of economic activity, a new and worrisome threat has emerged: rising inflation.
The region has lived through a dramatic period of setbacks since March 2020, when it...
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Targeted social protection programs intended to cushion people from the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have only had limited success in protecting human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Investigating the many different ways marginalized Pakistanis experience adversity.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022
The pandemic has been certainly harsh on poor and vulnerable populations across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Income fell for two-thirds of households and nearly half of workers stopped working, while 16% lost their jobs....
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Flexible workplace policies might help improve gender gaps in employment but they can also weaken women's position in the labour market.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022
The Commission for Social Development continued its 2022 session today, seeking ideas from Governments and United Nations experts alike about the best ways to combat poverty and hunger and — in the pandemic’s third year — get back on track to...
Thursday, January 20, 2022
We are seeing early signs of global recovery in economic output, global mobility, and international trade. But the latest Global Economic Prospects (GEP) edition presents a troubling picture: worsening inequality that the COVID-19 pandemic has...
