Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Cash transfers are controversial in social policy. Critics argue that handouts are expensive, risk creating dependency and should be a last resort strictly targeted at the poorest. But proponents consider them an important source of income security and a...
Friday, October 7, 2022
Amid ongoing food and fuel crises worldwide, general subsidies are making a big comeback as a way of delivering social protection to the population. In fact, according to a World Bank tracker, the number of social protection measures introduced in...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
For Indonesia’s social protection policies to properly advance gender equality, they must do more for women outside their traditional social roles, Vania Budianto writes.
Indonesian social protection policies have gone through significant...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
How can a large scale cash transfer programme be established from scratch, quickly, and during a deep economic crisis? The Government of Sri Lanka faces that challenge. New research reveals that the problem of selecting eligible households may be...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
While the COVID-19 pandemic and current cost of living crisis has exacerbated social inequalities and economic insecurity, it has also opened a window of opportunity to explore new forms of policy innovation to build back a fairer and more economically...
Thursday, July 21, 2022
COVID-19 has kept more than 168 million children around the world out of school for more than one year, but as schools reopen it is important not to forget another stubborn and powerful barrier keeping children out of the classroom—distance....
Monday, May 23, 2022
A combination of information and cash transfers is effective in changing maternal behavioural practices, which could bring down malnutrition
Monday, May 23, 2022
The government has spent Sh156 Billion in cash transfers to 800,033 senior citizens aged 70 years and above across the country in the last eight years.
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, May 4, 2022
LUSAKA, May 4, 2022—Before Subeta Nkumba, was enrolled in the social cash transfer (SCT) plan in Siavonga District, Southern province, the 53-year-old widow could not afford to feed her family three meals per day. But since she started...