Monday, June 21, 2021
New data from the Australian bureau of statistics shows the drop in spending by households due to the pandemic increased the level of savings, but while income rose strongly for low income households due to a big rise in social assistance, inequality...
Friday, September 4, 2020
Hay muchos Brasiles impactados por la renta mínima del coronavirus instaurada por el Gobierno de Jair Bolsonaro en abril. El mismo programa que no consigue garantizar en la megalópolis de São Paulo el alquiler de Jocelino da Silva Lima, un emigrante...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung announces a basic income program designed to help residents and local businesses weather the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on March 24 at the provincial government building in Suwon. (Gyeonggi Province). When...
Friday, December 13, 2019
BLOG: Spending on social protection interventions, such as the Senior Citizens Grant, is not a welfare cost, but is in fact an investment to the economy that demonstrates remarkable macro-economic impacts comparable to investment in other interventions...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
OPINION: There is much debate about the Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY), the minimum income scheme announced by the Congress party as part of its manifesto for national elections. It is only slightly different from a universal basic income, an idea to...
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Prime Minister Hun Sen again met with garment sector workers yesterday, adding a boost to maternity leave salaries to a range of promises he had made to them on Tuesday. At a meeting with thousands of workers at the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, Mr...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Belarusian state-run banks are ready to allocate Br250 million for building homes for people on the housing register using state support, BelTA learned from Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov after the head of state hosted a government...
Monday, August 21, 2017
The United Kingdom (UK) has contributed £4.5 million ($5.8 million) to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to provide essential food assistance to nearly 370,000 displaced people in Darfur for two months. The contribution from the British Department for...
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Azerbaijan and Bulgaria will sign an agreement on social security. The document will regulate the right to receive pensions and unemployment benefits for citizens of Azerbaijan and Bulgaria who work or worked in one of the two countries. The issues of...
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Monday, July 3, 2017
Parents of children returning to school in August and September have been urged to apply now for a government assistance scheme to help them pay for clothes and shoes. Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty has launched an information...