Wednesday, November 10, 2021
As this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) unfolds, the world is facing coinciding crises. Multiple regions hit their highest-ever recorded surface temperatures this year, tens of millions of people are being displaced by climate-related...
Friday, June 18, 2021
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today approved a $250 million policy-based loan to the Government of Bangladesh to help finance reforms aimed at improving the inclusiveness and responsiveness of the country’s social development and resilience program.
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
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As climate-related natural disasters occur with increasing frequency, disproportionally impacting poorer...
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Africa, Ethiopia, America, Mexico, Asia, Bangladesh, India, Philippines, Vietnam
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Monday, May 17, 2021
There is a lot to learn from the implementation experience in health and social protection. We did not have the benefit last year of knowing what we know now about how the policy response to the pandemic works and where the fault lines are.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
2020 alone saw the Philippines hit by an unprecedented four typhoons in just two months and widespread flooding in Vietnam and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Not surprisingly, there has been significant attention paid to how countries in the region...
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Asia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam
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Friday, April 9, 2021
Experience shows that innovative and evidence-based approaches, when executed well, can dent poverty. With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening to reverse hard-won global gains, the need for policy-relevant research, and for scaling effective solutions, has...
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America, Peru, Asia, Bangladesh, Pakistan
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Thursday, December 12, 2019
In many crisis settings, emergency response has been seen to be in a holding pattern, responding year on-year to the same needs without promoting lasting positive change in people’s lives. Yet humanitarian needs are expected to grow in the coming years...
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Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Oceania
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Monday, October 21, 2019
I have been asked by several close friends recently, why we need social protection measures to address poverty in Bangladesh—a country which has the world’s largest microcredit programme. One might ask: is it because the microcredit programme is not...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Social norms are developed and enforced by institutions that shape the values, roles, and interactions upheld within a society. In Bangladesh, many oppressive gender norms are upheld by patriarchal power structures, undermining the well-being of half our...
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Speakers at a discussion on Sunday underscored the need for making the existing social protection programmes more climate sensitive by taking community-based adaptive social protection schemes to address poverty and cope with the aftermath of any...