Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Despite being one of the most effective anti-poverty programmes we have at our disposal – as well as a universal human right – social protection coverage remains shockingly low. Over four billion people globally receive no benefits at all, with the...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Economic inclusion programs are coordinated, multidimensional interventions that address multiple constraints for households to increase their incomes and assets. When done right, economic inclusion programs are effective. A growing body of...
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,...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world’s most vulnerable populations through lost lives, health, jobs, incomes, assets, and education. The World Bank’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS) help identify the main fault lines along which the pandemic’...
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Poverty has skyrocketed worldwide because of the economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. But poverty was pervasive before 2020, when billions of people around the world lacked basic human rights such as access to clean water, sanitation,...
Monday, June 28, 2021
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Winston Churchill once said that one should never let a good crisis go to waste. Given the multi-faceted,...
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Rehana is 21. She left her village outside Rangpur to come to Dhaka three years ago because her cousin, who worked in a garment factory, told her there were plenty of opportunities in the city. Rehana admired her cousin’s confidence, independence, and...
Monday, June 8, 2020
Governments around the world are responding forcefully to the COVID-19 crisis with a combined fiscal and monetary response that has already reached 10% of global GDP. Yet according to the latest global assessment from the United Nations Department of...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020
Global economic losses will likely cause an estimated 34.3 million additional people to fall below the extreme poverty line in 2020, derailing shaky progress on the 2030 development agenda, a new U.N. report on the world economic situation shows. ...
Thursday, May 14, 2020
The economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is having a major impact on global labor and financial markets – which in turn will have significant effects on pension systems. Crucially, policy responses will need to strike a...