Friday, October 15, 2021
Earlier this year China’s government announced that it had eradicated absolute poverty, measured against a standard equivalent to $2.30 per person per day applied to rural areas. The latest Household Survey on Income, Expenditure and Living Conditions...
Monday, June 21, 2021
Increasing public spending and widening social protection measures with a proper registry of people could prove effective in reviving the economy during the pandemic of COVID-19. Brazil, for instance, did not face complex challenges in disbursing the...
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America, Brazil, Asia, Bangladesh, China, Vietnam
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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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Global, America, United States, Asia, China
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
How products such as food and clothes are produced and brought to consumers – a set of activities known as value chains – is critical to reducing poverty and hunger, creating jobs and ensuring decent work, innovation and economic growth. If the...
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Global, Africa, Asia, Bangladesh, China, South Korea, Taiwan
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020
BLOG: For decades, political and economic policies have been built on the promise of helping people do better than the generations before them. But still today, in 2020, the opportunities we get in life remain largely dictated by the socio-economic...
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United States, China, India, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, America, Asia, Europe
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020
BLOG: The shrinking demographic dividend and managing an ageing population are now major challenges to China’s economic development. According to the most recent population projections released by the Population Division of the United Nations, World Bank...
Thursday, December 12, 2019
In many crisis settings, emergency response has been seen to be in a holding pattern, responding year on-year to the same needs without promoting lasting positive change in people’s lives. Yet humanitarian needs are expected to grow in the coming years...
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Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Oceania
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Thursday, November 28, 2019
BLOG: Un nuevo informe de la CEPAL asegura que superar la pobreza en la región va más allá del crecimiento económico y debe incluir políticas redistributivas y fiscales que promuevan el verdadero bienestar entre los ciudadanos en áreas como la protección...
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America, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin (French part), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Uruguay, Venezuela
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
BLOG: Governments around the world are worrying about their citizens’ retirement security. Some use different versions of a pay-as-you-go system, where current workers pay for the benefits of current retirees, while others have regulations that place...
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Global, America, Brazil, United States, Asia, China, Japan, Europe, Sweden, United Kingdom, Oceania, Australia
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Saturday, September 7, 2019
BLOG: China is facing a larger aging population at the moment — and the country’s now-defunct one-child policy is partly to blame. China has a public benefit program that relies on tax revenue from the workforce and having so many more older residents...