Thursday, October 7, 2021
South Africa spends more on social assistance than most other countries globally, but this aid is still not available to a large share of the working-age members of its population, given unemployment benefits are available only to people who work in 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...
Friday, December 4, 2020
The World Bank said on Friday it has approved a $400 million loan in support of Morocco’s reforms to strengthen the safety net for poorer households following the coronavirus pandemic.
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Singapore is ranked 20th among 82 economies for social mobility, but among South-east Asian nations, it is in the top spot, according to a new report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) this week. Still, the Republic did especially well in health...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
OPINION: Canada and the rest of the developed world have entered an era of low interest rates and sluggish growth. We should expect interest rates to remain low by historical standards when the next recession occurs. Since the Bank of Canada will be...
Monday, January 20, 2020
BLOG: Unemployment insurance was and still is one of the most contested social protection schemes. As a consequence, it was not only introduced at a relatively late stage in the development of modern societies, but is also still missing in many...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
OPINION: The economic downturn is global. IMF has projected that 90% of the world economy will grow at a lower rate in 2019 than in the previous year. Industrialised countries have what economists call ‘automatic stabilisers’ that pump funds into the...
Thursday, December 6, 2018
China’s government will introduce a set of key measures aiming to boost employment, according to guidelines published by China’s State Council, the cabinet.
The guidelines stated that companies with no layoffs or few layoffs can get back 50% of...
Monday, May 28, 2018
Kazakh Vice Minister of Labour and Social Protection Nurzhan Altayev held an open lecture at Nur Otan Party headquarters dedicated to the country’s nationwide mass entrepreneurship programme.The unemployed, self-employed, small business entities and...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Finland has become the first country in the world to pay a basic income to randomly picked citizens on a national level in an experiment aiming at dismissing poverty, motivate people to join the workforce and decrease unemployment.
The experiment is...