Friday, October 21, 2022
Singapore has recently announced a new healthcare reform plan that will shift the country’s healthcare strategy towards preventive care. The program is called Healthier SG and aims to provide a family physician and one health plan for every resident. The...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Environmental risk factors such as air pollution affect health and income disproportionately in lower income households. In this IGC project, we review the long-term effects of non-communicable diseases, malnutrition, and air pollution, particularly on...
Monday, September 5, 2022
Most of the 2.1-billion strong workforce in Asia and the Pacific are denied access to decent jobs, health care and social protection but there is an array polices and tools that governments can use to remedy these deficiencies and ensure that the rights...
Monday, August 22, 2022
Analysis of the evolution of the pandemic clearly shows that the health crisis has not passed and that uncertainty remains. The prolonged crisis has highlighted not only the weaknesses of the region's health and social protection systems but also the...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Prime Minister Imran Khan here on Wednesday launched a historic and biggest ever Social Protection Program to provide maximum relief to the poor and make Pakistan a true Islamic welfare state like Riyasat-e-Madina.
He said that with Punjab government...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed huge gaps in Malaysia’s social protection system not just for the B40 but also for the M40. It showed that people are vulnerable even if they appear to be quite wealthy and it has been a shock that can hopefully be a...
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
This week, the Department of Social Protection issued weekly payments valued at €41.4 million to 140,138 people in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP).
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
This week, the Department of Social Protection issued weekly payments valued at €44.2 million to 149,436 people in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP). The greatest reduction this week is in the Accommodation and Food Services sector. The...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the U.S. economy into a nosedive of unprecedented rapidity. Millions of workers have lost their jobs and are unable to work from home. GDP is plummeting, small business owners cannot meet their rent and other...
Monday, August 2, 2021
The Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development chaired the third (virtual) meeting of the Tripartite Social Security Coordination Forum (SSCF) on 22 April 2021.
The meeting featured presentations and updates by provincial Employees...