Social protection and labor programs help households and workers manage crises, escape poverty, navigate transitions, and seize employment opportunities. Despite recent progress, three in four people ...

Marcelina Ngandu, a widowed mother of five in Zambia, receives monthly cash transfers that she invests in her small business. Every two months, Marcelina Ngandu collects her cash transfer from the ...

Poverty remains a pressing challenge for Pakistan, impacting millions of lives and hindering the country’s socio-economic development. In a nation with a diverse population and varying degrees of ...

In recent times, the issues of social protection and social assistance are once again on the radar of economists, experts, and policy-makers. The importance of social protection lies in the fact that ...

Household registration underway during the launch of the Imibereho Social Registry system in Kagugu Cell, City of Kigali, Rwanda, on January 17, 2024. As of 2024, 62 countries have operationalized ...

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 ...

MANILA — President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. pledged to further lower the country’s poverty rate to nine percent in 2028 by investing in job-generating infrastructure and social protection programs. In ...