Thursday, April 28, 2022
Some 28,864 low-income households were provided with access to affordable urban housing units. More than half of the beneficiaries were female, and over 18,400 worked in the informal sector.
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
As COVID-19 spread across the world, governments responded with an unprecedented increase in social assistance measures. Policymakers had to shift their focus to urban areas, particularly slums, whose residents were hit the hardest by the...
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Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Thursday, May 27, 2021
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Australia must consider taking up the mantle of other governments and begin to budget for policy measures...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Low-income immigrants in the US who struggled to afford basic needs during the coronavirus pandemic avoided seeking government benefits and other assistance because of immigration-related concerns, according to a new report by the Urban Institute.
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
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COVID-19 has inflicted unequal burdens across countries, across generations, and across the urban-rural divide,...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Governments need to tailor their financial support to citizens and organizations in response to COVID-19. The IMF recommends targeted support to vulnerable houses and focused support to viable firms. Support also needs to focus on a green, digital, and...
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America, United States, Asia, China, Europe, United Kingdom
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Thursday, March 11, 2021
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As part of recent COVID-19-related legislation, the US Government has committed to provide a quasi-universal...
Monday, July 6, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the “utterly inadequate” state of Spain’s social protection system, according to a former UN poverty expert who is calling on the government to ensure its actions on basic rights “live up to the rhetoric”. Philip...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
As we in the global North brace ourselves for the coronavirus pandemic we are being told to wash our hands (for 20 seconds!) and self-isolate if sick. But what if you cannot do either of those things?
Friday, February 14, 2020
Rocío de Moreno, presidenta del Comité Plan Toda Una Vida, mantuvo una reunión con María Gabriela Sigala, esposa del Presidente del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID); con Nora Libertun, especialista del BID; y Tatiana Gallego, Jefa de la División...