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 ...

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 ...

This paper investigates the impact of automation on the U.S. labor market from 2000 to 2007, specifically examining whether more generous social protection programs can mitigate negative effects.

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 ...

For a project in Bangladesh, Prof. Mushfiq Mobarak and his team used machine-learning models applied to mobile phone records ...

The European Union (EU) has called on the federal and state governments to increase financing for social protection interventions, saying it was critical to reducing poverty across the country. Head ...

(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 ...

Governments around the world are increasingly recognizing the necessity of robust social protection programs, and Jordan is no exception. In 2019, Jordanian authorities introduced the Unified Cash ...

Authorities are increasingly leveraging digital identification systems to achieve this goal and ensure their social ...

Guinea-Bissau’s social sectors face persistent challenges despite the progress made over the past few years. This paper reviews existing social protection programs in the country, assesses the ...

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 ...

The Adamawa House of Assembly has taken the social protection bill before for public hearing with the assertion that development initiatives of government which the bill seeks to encourage, requires ...