Thursday, September 22, 2022
Welfare states, where they still exist, have rapidly become targeted welfare states, preoccupied with the need to exclude persons deemed ineligible for certain welfare measures. Means testing is one way of fine-tuning targeting, i.e...
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Africa, South Africa, America, Brazil, Asia, China, India, Europe, Russia
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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 7, 2021
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Lower-middle-income countries spend 1.4 percent of GDP on social assistance that reduces relative poverty by...
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America, Brazil, Asia, China, Oceania, Australia, New Zealand
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Monday, May 17, 2021
China will soon launch a new pilot program for private pension funds as part of efforts to overhaul its strained system for retirement savings.
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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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
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The coronavirus pandemic has hit the developing world’s informal economy hard. Existing on the margins, with no...
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Africa, Rwanda, America, Costa Rica, Asia, China, Europe, Netherlands
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
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Everyone participates in the social contract every day, and we rarely stop to think about it. Yet social...
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Africa, South Sudan, America, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, United States, Asia, China, India, Europe, Denmark, United Kingdom
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Friday, March 12, 2021
China is facing major strains in its pension system after tapping social security funds to stimulate the economy for the past two years. On Feb. 26, China's minister of human resources and social security, Zhang Jinan, said the government had paid all of...
Monday, May 18, 2020
As the world continues to grapple with the unfolding COVID-19 crisis, many in Africa are worried not only about its spread but about the pandemic's long-term economic consequences as well. But long before our attention was captured by this virus, African...
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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