Tuesday, October 27, 2020
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Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs are widely used in low- and middle-...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Posiblemente habrá utilizado algún asistente por voz para preguntar qué tiempo hará, programar una reunión en su agenda o reproducir música, entre otras muchas tareas. Son aplicaciones tecnológicas que utilizan la inteligencia artificial y el lenguaje...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Given the high risk older persons face in terms of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality, governments in low and middle-income countries that provide cash transfers to older persons as part of their social protection strategies have had to rapidly implement...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
When Anushree Shridhar heard that vegetables and fruits were rotting in fields near Bengaluru because of India’s COVID-19 lockdown, she knew she had to do something to connect farmers and hungry families. Anushree, a senior accounting assistant with the...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Early Friday morning, people in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi’s informal settlement Kibera began queuing for a food distribution. Residents said they had been waiting for it for over a week — the community elders had gathered their names, ID, and...
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Monday, March 30, 2020
Durante más de diez años Fundación Capital junto con el Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) llevaron adelante el Proyecto Capital, una iniciativa de alcance regional en América Latina y el Caribe patrocinada por la Fundación Ford y el International...
Thursday, January 10, 2019
The Japanese government has failed to pay out tens of billions of yen (several hundred million dollars) in unemployment insurance and similar benefits due to years of inaccurate labor surveys, according to an internal investigation.
The...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Social security is a universally recognized human right. It is defined as an individual’s protection from risks associated with sickness, disability, maternity, employment injury, unemployment, old age, death, unaffordable health care and insufficient...
Saturday, January 27, 2018
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has called for renewed commitment to eliminate undernutrition and hunger in Africa.
FAO’s 2017 report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the world indicated that civil conflicts and...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
The universal health insurance bill currently up for vote in Parliament is intended to update the structure of a social protection system on its last legs and improve the provision of health services by expanding insurance coverage to all Egyptians....