Friday, December 9, 2022
Mothers reliant on state support have long been the subject of moral judgements about their deservingness. In 21st Century Britain, after over a decade of austerity and unprecedented welfare reform, exploring how mothers experience and resist the...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
While the COVID-19 pandemic and current cost of living crisis has exacerbated social inequalities and economic insecurity, it has also opened a window of opportunity to explore new forms of policy innovation to build back a fairer and more economically...
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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Thursday, March 31, 2022
MSc Anthropology and Development alum Adhvik Shetty looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed Britain’s food insecurity crisis and argues that social protection policies are necessary to prevent those most vulnerable to economic shocks from facing...
Monday, March 14, 2022
The government has launched its Homes for Ukraine site for those wanting to host a refugee, with 100,000 signing up within the first day.
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Perhaps the most important job that the state has is to protect children at risk of harm and abuse. Yet children’s social care is facing a mounting crisis that gets far less exposure than that confronting the NHS or even adult social care.
The...
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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Wednesday, October 6, 2021
The UK’s social security (welfare) system entered the pandemic in exceedingly poor health after years of cuts, ill-equipped to provide support to people who became ill or lost their jobs because of COVID-19. The £20 increase to universal credit was...
Friday, October 1, 2021
Gobierno anuncia que otorgará pensión solidaria en favor de 3,000 envejecientes. Esta información se ofreció durante una ceremonia que tuvo lugar en el salón Las Cariátides del Palacio Nacional y fue encabezada por el...
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America, Dominican Republic
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Sunday, September 26, 2021
About 1,500 additional UK children a year would be removed from their families and taken into care as a result of the explosion in child poverty caused by the removal of the £20-a-week universal credit uplift, a study has predicted. The impact of the cut...