Wednesday, August 30, 2023
To the international community, Brazil’s record on food security and social protection until relatively recently was exemplary, even enviable. The level of child stunting in Brazil fell from 25% in the mid-1980s to 15% in the mid-1990s and just 5% by the...
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Welfare states, where they still exist, have rapidly become targeted welfare states, preoccupied with the need to exclude persons deemed ineligible for certain welfare measures. Means testing is one way of fine-tuning targeting, i.e...
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Africa, South Africa, America, Brazil, Asia, China, India, Europe, Russia
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Wednesday, July 27, 2022
The world has changed in the last two years. Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) face the massive challenge of rebuilding post-pandemic economies. But one thing is certain: Women in the region were hit the hardest during the COVID-19...
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America, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Lucia, Uruguay
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Friday, May 27, 2022
Crianças e adolescentes que perderam os pais em decorrência da pandemia da Covid-19 no DF podem ser atendidas em um programa de proteção social que inclui o pagamento de pensão até que atinjam a maioridade.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
O Brasil precisa investir em políticas de proteção social perenes e de longo prazo para efetivamente reduzir, de maneira sustentável, a pobreza infantil. O estudo “Pobreza Infantil Monetária no Brasil – Impactos da pandemia na renda de famílias com...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Brasília. Agosto de 2021. O governo entrega ao Congresso a medida provisória do Auxílio Brasil. O ministro da Cidadania, João Roma (Republicanos), diz que o programa é uma evolução do Bolsa Família. Integrando políticas públicas de assistência social,...
Monday, January 3, 2022
De acordo com um índice exclusivo criado pelo pesquisador da Consultoria IDados, Bruno Ottoni, quase metade dos trabalhadores brasileiros empregados estão em um cargo pouco remunerado, sem rede de proteção social e com jornadas exaustivas.
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
In response to the impact of Covid-19 on poverty and inequality in the region, the Economic Commission for Latin America ECLAC has called for Latin American countries to build welfare states. Is this the right call? This blog, and two that will...
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America, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Europe, Sweden
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Friday, November 12, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed serious threats to food security and nutrition of the poorest people in the Kyrgyz Republic, particularly those living in urban areas, according to a new study. The document draws upon data from across the...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
During the final years of the Soviet regime, approximately 500 collective and state farms controlled 98 percent of the arable land in the Kyrgyz Republic. These centrally managed enterprises focused on a few priorities, especially raising sheep for wool...