Wednesday, April 10, 2024
A mutually reinforcing cycle of chronic poverty, economic exclusion, social marginalization, and frequent shocks drives fragile conditions throughout the Sahel region. As shocks due to climate change, rising food prices, and conflict increase in...
Thursday, March 14, 2024
School meal programmes are among the few social sector initiatives that generate equally high enthusiasm from governments in both the poorest and the richest nations. Even in these times of turbulence and uncertainty, most governments are highly...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Africa is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty. While many countries were successful in reducing poverty during the years before the pandemic, its economic disruptions coupled with climate disasters and...
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Asian Development Bank (ADB) statisticians Arturo Martinez Jr. and Joseph Albert Nino Bulan answer questions on how the increased cost of living crisis threatens to push many back into poverty in Asia and the Pacific, based on their research for Key...
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...
Friday, June 30, 2023
Cash transfers are the epicenter of social protection action. Such programs are shielding up to nearly 800 million people from inflation, they covered 1.3 billion individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their use in humanitarian settings more than...
Monday, February 20, 2023
Socios En Salud a través del Programa de Protección Social brinda acompañamiento y asistencia social, a fin de hacer frente a los determinantes sociales que rodean el cuidado, la atención y la curación del paciente, que ponen en riesgo el abandono de su...
Monday, August 22, 2022
There is considerable evidence of the effective role that school meals play in alleviating poverty and food insecurity, supporting good nutrition, boosting learning, and improving health outcomes. However, nearly 60 percent of children just above the...
Monday, April 18, 2022
Just as Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) was recovering its pre-pandemic levels of economic activity, a new and worrisome threat has emerged: rising inflation.
The region has lived through a dramatic period of setbacks since March 2020, when it...
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...