Saturday, May 9, 2015
70% of the world's 1·4 billion people who are extremely poor live in rural areas. A new report released on April 27 by the UN International Labour Organisation (ILO), Global evidence on inequities in rural health protection: new data on rural...
Monday, April 27, 2015
GENEVA (ILO News) – A new ILO report shows that 56 per cent of people living in rural areas worldwide do not have access to essential health-care services – more than double the figure in urban areas, where 22 per cent are not covered.
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Saturday, April 18, 2015
Egypt signed with the World Bank Friday a $400 million agreement for a project set to benefit 1.5 million poor Egyptian families.
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Friday, April 17, 2015
In an effort to improve the welfare of the poor and vulnerable, the Government of Indonesia (GoI) is expanding education grants through the Smart Indonesia programme. With the expanded scope, GoI is making an effort to bring poor children who have...
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...
