Tuesday, May 10, 2022
The Government of Ghana launched the LEAP 1000 pilot – a ‘cash plus’ programme – targeted at pregnant women and those with infants living in poor households in 2015. The motivation of the pilot was to support children during the first 1000 days...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
China has pledged to lend more support to companies with multi-faceted measures in a renewed commitment to protecting jobs for its workforce amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, an official said Wednesday.
Friday, March 20, 2020
El Gobierno nacional dispuso hoy la creación de un nuevo programa nacional de inclusión socio-productiva y desarrollo local, llamado "Potenciar Trabajo", y la creación de un "Banco de Maquinarias, Herramientas y Materiales para la Emergencia Social",...
Friday, March 13, 2020
Could cash transfers help offset some of the economic damage being wrought by COVID-19?
Thursday, January 9, 2020
BLOG: Odes Arinanye was living in abject poverty with the four children under her care in Kyaka II refugee settlement in western Uganda. The 59-year-old widow did not have a proper lighting system in her home, or a mobile phone to communicate with...
Monday, November 25, 2019
BLOG: For about a decade now, the charity GiveDirectly has been distributing cash straight to poor residents in sub-Saharan Africa, starting in Kenya and expanding later to Uganda, Malawi, Rwanda, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
OPINION: Whether governments should indefinitely dole out unconditional cash transfers (UCT) to the ultra-poor or they should give them some kind of in-kind asset transfer/skill training is a policy debate that has been going for more than a decade...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
BLOG: The Ehsaas Strategy has been released to solicit public input, prior to its finalization. The strategy elaborates on the prime minister’s vision of a welfare state. Ehsaas’ premise is grounded in the importance of strengthening institutions,...
Monday, July 29, 2019
Blog: In a small community off the coast of Sierra Leone, Salamatou Bangura often struggled to feed her children. Though she worked long hours buying and selling seafood from the local fisherman in her village, until recently, it wasn’t enough...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
BLOG: The prime duty of the state and the governments running the state affairs is to promote the wellbeing of the people by pursuing policies aimed at poverty alleviation and providing safety nets for the vulnerable sections of the society in...