Friday, March 20, 2015
The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors on March 19 approved a US$6 million International Development Association (IDA) grant for the Union of Comoros to increase access to social safety nets focusing on improving communities’ productive and...
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Parliament approved a $50 million loan to finance social interventions or programmes like the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP).
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Thursday, March 5, 2015
The UNICEF Myanmar has called for implementing the first-ever National Social Protection strategy including payments for children, disables and the elderly, with the new sufficient funding for 2015-16 fiscal year, official media reported Thursday...
Friday, February 27, 2015
A consultation of social protection for home-based workers expressed concern about the lack of social protection to millions of home workers in Pakistan, particularly in the province of Sindh, and demanded proper and effective legislation to protect...
Friday, February 27, 2015
Turkey has been classified as an emerging country with a fair economic performance for the past decade. In the period from 2002 to 2014, Turkey has secured successive high gross domestic product increase rates, except the years of 2008 and 2009, which is...
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Dakar — The Government of Senegal launched today a 40.5 million dollar International Development Association (IDA) credit to help Senegal establish the building blocks for a national social safety net system and provide targeted cash transfers to poor...
Monday, February 2, 2015
Brazil has had significant and continuous increase in the tax burden in the last 20 years. High levels of collection underpin the funding that enabled the country to expand social policies and promote inclusion in the period, and it is this combination...
Friday, December 12, 2014
GENEVA (ILO News) – An ILO study shows that 80 per cent of the population across 44 countries are without any health protection and are therefore deprived of the right to health. These countries include Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Guinea and Sierra Leone....
Friday, December 12, 2014
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $150 million loan to the Dominican Republic to gradually consolidate social security coverage and improve efficiency in health care spending by deepening reforms the government has been...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Lesotho's Social Development Policy and Social Protection Strategy, which Development Pathways were responsible for drafting, was approved yesterday by the Cabinet. The strategy, which sets out a clear framework for social protection based on the life...
