Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Together with a team of Spanish and international researchers coordinated by the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros, J-PAL Europe is partnering with the Spanish Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security, and Migration to launch a Policy Lab focused...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Economic inclusion programs are coordinated, multidimensional interventions that address multiple constraints for households to increase their incomes and assets. When done right, economic inclusion programs are effective. A growing body of...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit women particularly hard, exacerbating existing gender gaps. Not only are women disproportionally represented in the worst affected industries such as retail, food services and hospitality, but many were forced out of the...
Thursday, October 7, 2021
The Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) program is the flagship of Greece’s social protection reforms and particularly effective by international standards in reaching poor households. Its national launch in February 2017 aligned Greece with other EU...
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Social protection programmes that recognise the different risks faced by women and men have proven effective in increasing food security and productivity, helping to support the livelihoods of India’s rural poor. But despite efforts to address gender-...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
In a broad stroke, the course of action for an effective social protection plan entails first identifying the problems, then bringing transparency to implementation and developing long-term plans for creating employment, and finally, and most crucially,...
Monday, August 30, 2021
In this post, Sherwin Gabriel and colleagues present results from modeling the economic effects of short-term social protection measures in South Africa, especially targeted at lower income households, in the face of new waves of infection and pressure...
Monday, August 23, 2021
Recent developments in labor reforms across the Gulf countries are encouraging signs of a much-needed overhaul of protective systems for migrant laborers. Qatar’s winning bid to host the 2022 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World...
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Monday, August 16, 2021
The short answer is “Very Important”. The purpose of this study was to answer two research questions. First, what was the impact of participation in South Carolina’s Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) programme, Family Independence...
Monday, August 2, 2021
Growing evidence shows that coordinated economic inclusion interventions can provide a valuable pathway out of extreme poverty. Our recent report, The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021: The Potential to Scale (SEI report 2021), assessed...