Thursday, December 1, 2022
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a $75.9 million loan to improve living conditions in households in the areas of Honduras with the highest rates of extreme poverty, and to cultivate human capital and self-management capacity in those...
Thursday, September 1, 2022
At a crossroads—this is how we described higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in our 2017 regional study. During the study dissemination, we heard from firms on their struggle to find qualified workforce and from students on...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
As the Asia Pacific develops, more countries in the region must build comprehensive policy frameworks that promote wellbeing in old age, Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana writes.
Older persons are highly visible across Asia and the Pacific: they work in...
Monday, May 30, 2022
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a welfare program for thousands of children who lost their parents to the COVID-19 pandemic. The public health outbreak devastated India, which saw its hospitals run out of staff, beds, and...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
While 2021 was dubbed the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, the number of children in labor —160 million at 2020 — rose for the first time in two decades, according to estimates by the International...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
As the responsibility for Early Childhood Development shifts from the Department of Social Development to the Department of Basic Education, concerns have been raised about the state of preparedness. However, both departments insist they are ready to...
Monday, February 28, 2022
t the beginning of 2020, national school feeding programs were delivering school meals to more children than at any time in human history, making school feeding the most extensive social safety net and the largest multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral...
Monday, February 21, 2022
El actual gobierno federal está enfocado en invertir en capital físico, es decir a la construcción de obra pública, y ha descuidado invertir en la protección social de su ciudadanía, nos contó Marcelo Delajara, director del Programa de...
Sunday, January 30, 2022
In summation, both the 2022-23 budget and the finance minister’s ‘India at 100’ long-term vision blindly ignored – without making a mention – the need for establishing a robust social and economic safety net for the most vulnerable populations and...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
The Build Back Better bill has stalled. On one point, we agree with Senator Joe Manchin that it is time for Congress to start with a “clean sheet of paper” by evaluating how each policy in the legislation betters American society. In this...