Wednesday, June 2, 2021
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We know the economic impacts of COVID-19 have been severe. Advanced and developing countries alike have...
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Africa, Angola, Burundi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Asia, North Korea
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
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With increased focus on the shortfall in learning outcomes around the world (the “learning crisis”!), one...
Sunday, November 22, 2020
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Carmen Almeida, 56, worries about keeping in touch with her fellow domestic workers. Most haven’t worked...
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Africa, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, America, Mexico, Peru, United States, Asia, India, Thailand, Europe, Bulgaria
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Friday, September 13, 2019
Over five million Tanzanians, more than half of them women, will benefit from improved social safety nets supported by new financing approved today by the World Bank Board of Executive Directors. The $450 million IDA credit to the Second...
Monday, April 22, 2019
OPINION: Many among those who advocate for cash transfers are frustrated with corrupt and inefficient governments and want to explore an easier way out. There is no easy way out. Poor people, like all of us, need strong states to provide law and...
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Benin, Tanzania, India, Africa, Asia
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Thursday, February 21, 2019
Richer African countries such as Botswana and South Africa have operated welfare schemes for many years. Poorer ones are now rushing to do the same. From 2010 to 2015 the countries of sub-Saharan Africa launched an average of 14 schemes per year, up from...
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Africa, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania
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Thursday, October 19, 2017
Hundreds of women from families considered extremely poor have been chosen to receive cash payments as part of a government effort to help lift citizens from the quagmires of poverty. More than 5,000 families in Korogwe district have received financial...
Sunday, July 24, 2016
More than 6,000 families in Muheza - at the foot of northern Tanzania's Usambara Mountains - have received financial support to improve their livelihoods under the conditional cash transfer initiative run by Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF).
Saturday, June 18, 2016
More than 6.6 million Tanzanian citizens falling in the extreme poor and food-insecure category will have their livelihoods improved with the additional financing of $200 million (400bn/-) approved by the World Bank.
Monday, May 23, 2016
TANZANIA Social Action Fund (TASAF) beneficiaries will start to receive the money right onto their mobile phones, instead of the current arrangement in which they are compelled to queue up at their respective ward or village offices for physical cash.