Thursday, December 13, 2018
This seminar will present the findings of the paper "Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?". The paper uses a randomized information intervention to shed light on whether poor understanding of social...
Monday, December 10, 2018
Access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is widely acknowledged to play a transformative role in reducing poverty and strengthening livelihoods. Although many countries achieved significant progress in extending access to these basic...
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom
Sunday, December 09, 2018
On 10 December, Member States will meet in Marrakesh, Morocco, to formally adopt the Global Compact for Migration (GCM). Our high-level side event, held the day before the GCM is adopted, focuses on how better migration governance can bring about shared,...
Location:
Africa, Morocco
Thursday, December 06, 2018
The welfare state in the UK was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of poverty, provided decent homes, good education and security. But it is out of kilter now: an elaborate and expensive system of managing needs and risks. Today we face new challenges....
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom
Thursday, December 06, 2018 to Friday, December 07, 2018
The “Inequalities and Social Cohesion” conference will have as ambition to bring together practitioners and researchers around these issues, and take this debate to the civil society.
The conference will take place in Paris over two days.
The first one,...
Wednesday, December 05, 2018
In recent years the geopolitical landscape has changed, with powerful effects on the context and practices of humanitarian action. Irregular migration, epidemics and conflict have stretched the capacity of the humanitarian system and are reshaping the...
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom
Monday, December 03, 2018
Presentación sobre los logros de la Secretaría Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Afropanameños (SENADAP) en el 2018 y una nueva colaboración con el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para el desarrollo de políticas públicas para la inclusión racial en Panamá...
Location:
America, Panama
Monday, December 03, 2018
Human capital—health, knowledge, and skills—is a major determinant of an individual’s lifetime income, and hence of a country’s per capita income. The launch of the Human Capital Index presents a transformative opportunity to persuade governments to...
Location:
America, United States
Monday, December 03, 2018 to Tuesday, December 04, 2018
Established in 2013, the Youth Summit is an annual event held by the World Bank Group (WBG) to engage with youth globally on the most pressing topics facing their generation. The primary goals of the Summit are to empower youth to explore innovative ideas for...
Location:
America, United States
Thursday, November 29, 2018 to Friday, November 30, 2018
Background
According to the document "Social Protection Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean", written by Lucia Mina Rosero and published by ECLAC with the support of GIZ, Social Protection has emerged in recent years as a key concept which seeks to...
Location:
America, Panama