Friday, November 19, 2021
Far from the limelight, global leaders are on the cusp of striking a historic and unprecedented financing deal for spurring pandemic recovery through the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), a mechanism overseen by 173 governments...
Thursday, November 18, 2021
In an EMIR Research article, “Budget 2022 – towards a more comprehensive welfare system” (November 3, 2021), we had called for there to be put in place “a comprehensive and systematic welfare system that caters and meets the needs of all segments of...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Prompted by a challenge from Tesla founder Elon Musk, the United Nations has released a plan for how it would spend nearly $7 billion to combat hunger around the world. The proposal comes three weeks after David Beasley, executive director of the U.N.'s...
Thursday, November 4, 2021
There has been a furious response from several research and lobbying organisations to rumours of a reform of the welfare system in South Africa. Apparently, the South African government is considering a local version of the Bolsa Familia, the Brazilian...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on economies, the need for a human-centred recovery from the crisis by nations has been emphasised. The human-centred approach, experts said, should be based on inclusive economic growth and employment,...
Monday, November 1, 2021
Members of the Ugandan Parliament sitting on the Committees of Budget and Gender, Labour and Social Development want government to increase social protection expenditure to at least 2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Our funding to social protection is...
Monday, November 1, 2021
A MalaysianTrades Union Congress (MTUC) leader urged the Government to establish an Old Age Social Protection Scheme to help retirees weather out their twilight years comfortably. “We would propose that a nominal percentage from taxes collected be...
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Social protection is a right for the federal government and not a token or favour. The last 18 months have been difficult for families and communities across the country as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vision of equality and inclusion as...
Thursday, October 14, 2021
This article originally appeared in InDepthNews on October 14, 2021.
It is time we start treating extreme poverty as the global emergency it is. This International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, October 17, we are looking at 100 million more...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed huge gaps in Malaysia’s social protection system not just for the B40 but also for the M40. It showed that people are vulnerable even if they appear to be quite wealthy and it has been a shock that can hopefully be a...
