Thursday, September 23, 2021
With thousands of children being forced into child labour every day, leading child rights activists on Wednesday called for a global social protection fund to stem the loss of a generation to COVID-19. The pandemic has pushed many countries - from the...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
The International Labour Organization's (ILO) 2020-2022 World Social Protection Report revealed that 46.9% of the world’s population are “covered by at least one social protection benefit”, excluding health. Arab states fall below the global average, at...
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Africa, Asia, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Despite the unprecedented worldwide expansion of social protection during the COVID-19 crisis, more than 4 billion people around the world remain entirely unprotected, a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report says. It finds that the...
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...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
The Government of Bangladesh has allocated 17.83 per cent of the total budget for fiscal 2021-22 for Social Safety Net Programmes (SSNPs). The coverage is diverse; it includes programmes related to poverty eradication, education, health, infrastructure,...
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...
Sunday, August 1, 2021
The basic income grant debate has been rumbling in South Africa for two decades, ever since the grant was recommended by the Committee of Inquiry into a Comprehensive System of Social Security for South Africa in 2002. The reintroduction of the...
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
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Despite constituting almost half of the qualified health workforce in India, female health workers face a...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
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One of the questions I attempt to answer in this article is what we might learn from social policy and...
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Africa, South Africa, America, Brazil
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Friday, May 14, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated housing insecurity for millions of low- and moderate-income renters....