Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Everyone, regardless of their gender, has different experiences from disasters. Gender dynamics impact both how people are affected by disasters as well as their capacity to withstand and recover from them. For example, in Mozambique, prevailing social...
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Welfare states, where they still exist, have rapidly become targeted welfare states, preoccupied with the need to exclude persons deemed ineligible for certain welfare measures. Means testing is one way of fine-tuning targeting, i.e...
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Africa, South Africa, America, Brazil, Asia, China, India, Europe, Russia
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Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Years of implementing, studying, and iterating on cash transfer programs have revealed some important lessons about achieving long-term impact.
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Tuesday, November 23, 2021
In the busy streets of Male, the capital of Maldives, Aminath Waheed picks up passengers, blazing a trail as the city’s only female taxi driver. In the hills of Nepal, 30-year-old Madhukala Adhikari works as a mobile mason, helping families rebuild...
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Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
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Friday, November 19, 2021
Far from the limelight, global leaders are on the cusp of striking a historic and unprecedented financing deal for spurring pandemic recovery through the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), a mechanism overseen by 173 governments...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on economies, the need for a human-centred recovery from the crisis by nations has been emphasised. The human-centred approach, experts said, should be based on inclusive economic growth and employment,...
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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Friday, May 14, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated housing insecurity for millions of low- and moderate-income renters....
Thursday, April 1, 2021
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In a previous post we introduced a set of productive inclusion measures that governments in Burkina Faso,...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021
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It is increasingly apparent that the costs of COVID-19 will be borne disproportionately by poorer segments...