Monday, November 25, 2019
BLOG: Senior government officials, social partners, civil society organizations, and representatives of the international community will gather this week in Geneva to take part in the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Global Social...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
BLOG: Conditional cash transfers, considered by some as "magic bullet", actually carry significant-but uncounted-costs. In July 2013, I huddled closely with Yesenia Paqari (not her real name), a mother of two and a respected community leader. We sat...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
A British born Jamaican and now Senegalese entrepreneur Saadiya Sy has recently initiated a project called Attaya Attire. The project is expected to create an environment where economic growth and poverty reduction will be promoted through...
Thursday, January 25, 2018
The case for a basic income, a policy that would give all citizens cash payments at regular intervals throughout their lives, is gaining traction. Prominent tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, academics across the ideological spectrum from ...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Over 30,000 pregnant women and nursing mothers in Zamfara State have benefited from the cash transfer programme of the British Department for International Development (DFID), an official said on Tuesday.
The DFID which runs the Child Development...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
The British government’s aid ministry says its new programme to support technological improvement to the way Kenya trades has proved successful.
The UK says that it is now about to put an additional £211 million (Sh30.2 billion) into the second...
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Africa, Kenya, Europe, United Kingdom
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017
A long discussion week was conducted by the Indonesian and Fijian Governments on areas of co-operation and the cross cutting issues that both countries can work on to improve social protection and alleviate poverty.
The meeting was between...
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Asia, Indonesia, Oceania, Fiji
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Monday, December 11, 2017
Without a renewed commitment to policy change, commodity-dependent developing countries (CDDCs), are by 2030 set to lag behind countries with more diverse economies in their social and economic achievements, UNCTAD and the Food and Agriculture...
Monday, December 4, 2017
More than 200 experts and professionals in the fields of nutrition, health, education, social protection and agriculture are convening in Budapest today. They have one thing in common: the conviction that local, national, regional and global food systems...
Thursday, November 23, 2017
New research has shown governments can help improve health in low and middle income countries, simply by providing cash to people living in poverty.
Dr Frank Pega, an honorary research fellow from the University of Otago, Wellington, has just...