Monday, August 30, 2021
Food subsidies are central to Egypt’s social protection efforts. About 70 million people benefit from the Tamween ration-card system, and 83 million benefit from subsidized baladi bread, a staple for many Egyptians. Together these two programs account...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Social protection includes policies, programmes and measures aimed at ensuring a basic standard of living for a nation's people and protecting people against major shocks such as serious illnesses, injury and unemployment.
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the U.S. economy into a nosedive of unprecedented rapidity. Millions of workers have lost their jobs and are unable to work from home. GDP is plummeting, small business owners cannot meet their rent and other...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
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This blog is part of a Better Assistance in Crises Research programme series exploring the implications of...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
The views, thoughts and opinions presented in this Op-Ed belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org
One of the questions I attempt to answer in this article is what we might learn from social policy and...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
A bill seeking to distribute financial and production support amounting to P15,000 to at least one million small fisherfolks in the country has been filed in Congress. This, as the income of small fishermen already went down to as low as P150 per fishing...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Las ayudas de entre ¢100.000 y ¢200.000 mensuales tienen el objetivo de asistir a las familias afectadas para su alimentación. En una primera fase se otorgarían subsidios a familias en situación de vulnerabilidad, que no reciben otras ayudas estatales....
Sunday, April 12, 2020
شرعت السلطات المغربية هذا الأسبوع في تحديد الفئات المتضررة من تداعيات فيروس كورونا، الاقتصادية والاجتماعية، بهدف إدراجها ضمن برنامج دعم مالي شهري غير مسبوق. ولعل أبرز الصعوبات التي تواجه هذا البرنامج، هو تحديد الفئات المستحقة فعليا للمساعدة التي تتراوح...
Monday, April 6, 2020
BLOG: India’s huge population, its density, and very large numbers of poor present an extraordinary challenge for the country’s COVID-19 response, and the Indian government has imposed the largest lockdown in history: 1.3 billion people ordered...
Monday, March 30, 2020
We are living amidst what is potentially one of the greatest threats in our lifetime to global education, a gigantic educational crisis. As of March 28, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is causing more than 1.6 billion children and youth to be out of school...