Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Australia’s stance on Pacific migration is again at a turning point, with key features of the temporary ‘guestworker’ model being reconsidered as Labor envisions a more humanitarian approach to regional integration. Alongside the welcome introduction of...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Bhavana Devi, or Bhuri, as she is known by people in the village of Kerpura in Rajasthan’s Udaipur district, cheerfully opens the rusted iron doors to her home. Sunlight streams in. It lights up her dwelling, one small cement-and-brick box with a damaged...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
With the current cost-of-living crisis resulting in dramatic inflation, higher interest rates and a looming recession, people have been searching for solutions to the economic crisis. A universal job guarantee may just be the answer we’re...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
While the COVID-19 pandemic and current cost of living crisis has exacerbated social inequalities and economic insecurity, it has also opened a window of opportunity to explore new forms of policy innovation to build back a fairer and more economically...
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...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
The Pacific Labour Mobility Survey (PLMS) covers households in three Pacific countries – Tonga, Kiribati and Vanuatu – and workers in Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) and Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS; together now PALM) and New Zealand’s...
Friday, July 15, 2022
In June 2022, a young man in Benin’s Sèmè City—a government-sponsored innovation campus for technical and vocational training (TVET), higher education, and research, as well as a business accelerator and incubator—proudly displayed what he had made using...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
In 2002, BRAC Bangladesh pioneered a programme as part of their Graduation approach to development interventions. The programme aimed to lift ultra-poor women above the extreme poverty line within two years through the provision of small...
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Creating new jobs is one of the biggest challenges facing low- and middle-income countries. Because employment in these countries is mostly in micro and small enterprises (MSEs), targeted interventions such as training, microcredit, cash grants, business...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
LUSAKA, May 4, 2022—Before Subeta Nkumba, was enrolled in the social cash transfer (SCT) plan in Siavonga District, Southern province, the 53-year-old widow could not afford to feed her family three meals per day. But since she started...
