As India enters a critical phase of its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for a decentralized, portable, dynamic and coordinated social protection architecture has become an urgent ...

The government has finalised a draft National Social Protection Strategy with a Nu 2 billion budget under the 13th Plan, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay announced during the recent Meet-the-Press ...

CLIMATE change poses an existential threat to human societies, particularly in low- and middle-income countries that are disproportionately affected yet often lack the resources to mount effective ...

The proposed cash transfer scheme to support the food needs of some of the most deserving urban poor has met quite some flak from commentators, including MPs. This sort of controversy is not unusual ...

India's social protection coverage increased from 24.4% in 2021 to 48.8% in 2024, according to the ILO's World Social Protection Report (WSPR) 2024-26. This increase acknowledges existing central ...

As an economy develops, economic policy and social policy tend to overlap. Reports of long queues of people in Ho Chi Minh City withdrawing their social insurance contributions after losing their jobs ...

If you have ever received financial support from the state because you were unable to work due to pregnancy, disability, sickness or old age, you’ve benefited from what is known as social protection.

IN MEXICO CITY and Lima covid-19 patients are once again being turned away from hospitals with no beds to spare, while in Manaus, in northern Brazil, a new variant of the virus is killing a hundred ...

PM K P Oli unveiled the contribution-based Social Security Scheme for formal workers amidst a program in Kathmandu last month. Photo: BIKRAM RAI The Nepal government’s announcement of a social ...