Wednesday, August 9, 2023
In 2020, South Sudan witnessed the first locust invasion in over 70 years. The locusts destroyed crops and grazing land in many parts of the country, significantly affecting the incomes and food security of thousands of people, the majority of whom...
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Creating new jobs is one of the biggest challenges facing low- and middle-income countries. Because employment in these countries is mostly in micro and small enterprises (MSEs), targeted interventions such as training, microcredit, cash grants, business...
Monday, October 25, 2021
Millions of people across the world have been forced into extreme poverty because of COVID-19. According to World Bank estimates, nearly 500 million Sri Lankans fell into poverty due to the pandemic. The population suffering from poverty (below the USD 3...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Through the financial support of the Myanmar Humanitarian Fund (MHF), FAO is implementing a project to support farming and livelihoods in Rakhine State.
Rakhine State is one of the poorest states in Myanmar, with over 40 percent of its...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Migration is a crucial element for economic development, as it offers workers in low- and middle-income countries ways to diversify and increase their income as well as ways to smooth their consumption over time. In addition, migration allows workers to...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
During the final years of the Soviet regime, approximately 500 collective and state farms controlled 98 percent of the arable land in the Kyrgyz Republic. These centrally managed enterprises focused on a few priorities, especially raising sheep for wool...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
The employment crisis became an unfortunate consequence, as India cycled through lockdowns of varying severity and duration during the COVID-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate, at approximately 7.2 percent in January 2020, shot up to 23.5 percent in...
Thursday, June 24, 2021
The proliferation of cash transfer programmes in developing countries has raised concern regarding a crowding-out effect on citizens' demands for investment in universal public services. Based on a household survey in rural Pakistan, this article shows...
Monday, May 17, 2021
There is a lot to learn from the implementation experience in health and social protection. We did not have the benefit last year of knowing what we know now about how the policy response to the pandemic works and where the fault lines are.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
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Getting older is a natural process, and one that I would like to go through. However, in the community where...