Human capital — the knowledge, skills, and health of a population — is the foundation for job creation and economic growth and critical to achieving the World Bank’s mission to end extreme poverty and ...
Tunisia is facing a challenging economic situation that affects its population, particularly the most vulnerable. Tunisia’s economic growth has been limited since 2011 – GDP growth was 1.7 percent ...
In the early 2000s, the global community harboured great aspirations outlined in the Millennium Development Goals. Amidst this wave of optimism, the concept of social protection emerged as a pivotal ...
Social protection systems play a key role in preventing hardship when people face adverse circumstances. Many countries around the world have some social protection programmes in place. In 2017, 45 ...
Action Against Hunger, in partnership with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, ...
(Beirut) – Governments of the Middle East and North Africa region should develop and fund comprehensive social protection systems that fulfill all people’s right to social security, Human Rights Watch ...
(Washington, DC) – Targeted social protection programs intended to cushion people from the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have only had limited success in protecting human rights, Human ...
A new report by HelpAge International and the International Labor Organization (ILO) draws on the testimonials of older people who convey the severe hardships they face because of the lack of an ...
Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies, Adjunct Professor in the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand Stephen Devereux receives funding from the ...
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