Sunday, February 6, 2022
Malaysian politicians have long reminded us that we will soon achieve high-income country status. But the vulnerable, often silent majority has largely felt left out and various vulnerabilities are more acutely felt by this growing “precariat”.
The...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
COVID is forcing us to rethink and recalibrate our approach because many people have lost their income, their jobs, their family members, their assets and their savings. This has led to poverty, poor health and much more unbearable situations to the...
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...
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...
Thursday, September 23, 2021
With thousands of children being forced into child labour every day, leading child rights activists on Wednesday called for a global social protection fund to stem the loss of a generation to COVID-19. The pandemic has pushed many countries - from the...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
A menos de diez años para cumplir con la Agenda 2030 y con los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), queda claro que necesitamos redefinir acciones prioritarias, articular esfuerzos y avanzar más rápido para lograrlos. Pocos países han hecho los...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Despite the unprecedented worldwide expansion of social protection during the COVID-19 crisis, more than 4 billion people around the world remain entirely unprotected, a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report says. It finds that the...
Saturday, August 14, 2021
In an attempt to protect from economic disaster in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments enacted an unprecedented number of social protection programs. According to the World Bank, Social protection “traditionally consists of labor markets,...
Thursday, August 12, 2021
Malaysia urgently needs to address the weakness of its social protection coverage for the self-employed as the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the group’s long-term vulnerabilities during economic shocks, Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
The Government of Bangladesh has allocated 17.83 per cent of the total budget for fiscal 2021-22 for Social Safety Net Programmes (SSNPs). The coverage is diverse; it includes programmes related to poverty eradication, education, health, infrastructure,...