Thursday, February 2, 2023
Nepal’s newly elected government should prioritize coverage for all children and add coverage for millions of informal workers as it considers changes to the existing system, Human Rights Watch said today. Nepal’s social protection system fails to...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
In my discussion with the Caribbean leaders, food security comes up often. The COVID-19 pandemic has undermined food security on a global scale, and with the additional challenges exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the impacts on the Caribbean...
Monday, June 27, 2022
Successive crises including COVID-19, climate change, conflicts, and the emerging global food crisis will force 75 to 95 million more people into extreme poverty this year compared to pre-pandemic estimates, according to the World Bank. With 700 million...
Monday, June 13, 2022
Economic insecurity caused by lockdowns during the early days of Covid-19 forced many households to rely on government welfare schemes to fulfil their consumption needs. Using data from the June 2020 round of the Delhi NCR Coronavirus Telephone Survey,...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Bangladesh has experienced impressive gains in reducing undernutrition over the past two decades. For example, the proportion of stunted children under-5 fell from 43 percent to 31 percent between 2007 and 2018 while the number of wasted...
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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Tuesday, August 17, 2021
During the final years of the Soviet regime, approximately 500 collective and state farms controlled 98 percent of the arable land in the Kyrgyz Republic. These centrally managed enterprises focused on a few priorities, especially raising sheep for wool...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
The Government of Bangladesh has allocated 17.83 per cent of the total budget for fiscal 2021-22 for Social Safety Net Programmes (SSNPs). The coverage is diverse; it includes programmes related to poverty eradication, education, health, infrastructure,...
Thursday, August 5, 2021
The second wave of COVID-19 brought with it unimaginable grief, agony, and frustration. India saw a sharp increase in the number of deaths, especially among younger people, which meant that many children lost one or both parents. Reports of people...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Members of Parliament (MPs) raised a wide range of concerns including disruptions caused by COVID-19 restrictions, extending support for hard-hit sectors and the mental toll of the pandemic, during a lengthy debate on the Government’s latest COVID-19...