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Bank to Mobilize over $7bn for Health, Education
The Bank said today it is mobilizing over $7 billion for health and education to help poor countries battle threats to their social services during the crisis. The new health and education numbers...
View ArticleSocial Protection for Inclusive Growth: A Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
‘Social protection for inclusive development’ is a timely topic. The G20 ‘Seoul Development Consensus (2010)’, identified growth with resilience as a key pillar. Furthermore, the recent prevailing...
View ArticleSafety Nets Change Lives
The stories of two families in a new video produced for the Spring Meetings illustrate how safety nets can change lives.
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India’s Informal Workers Form a ‘People’s Economy’
Read this post in Español, Français, 中文In recent years, we’ve seen sweeping change across the world’s economies; formal systems have broken down and become informal. My home region of South Asia is no...
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Cities: The new frontier of social protection
photo: Dominic Chavez/World BankConsider this: By the time you had breakfast this morning, the world’s urban population grew by some 15,000 people. This number will increase to 180,000 people by the...
View ArticleSocial protection challenges in an urbanizing world - Part 1
With 54 percent of the world’s population now living in urban areas, central and local governments around the globe are faced with both opportunities and challenges. This week, senior policymakers from...
View ArticleSocial protection challenges in an urbanizing world - part 2
With 54 percent of the world’s population now living in urban areas, central and local governments around the globe are faced with both opportunities and challenges. This week, policymakers from 75...
View ArticleReflections from the 2015 South-South Learning Forum – Part 1
Ministers, mayors, senior officials and experts from both the social protection and urban development spheres wrapped-up their intensive discussion at the 2015 South-South Learning Forum in Beijing,...
View ArticleReflections from the 2015 South-South Learning Forum – Part 2
Ministers, mayors, senior officials and experts from both the social protection and urban development spheres wrapped-up their intensive discussion at the 2015 South-South Learning Forum in Beijing,...
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Social protection tools for the 21st century
A case worker interviews a young man at a shelter for street children. Over the past two decades, I have witnessed the significant and exciting changes that social protection has brought to the...
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Income inequality and differential mortality: An ominous combination
It is safe to argue that the issue of income and wealth inequality is nowadays at the center of political debate across the world. Leading intellectuals such as Thomas Piketty in his seminal work,...
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In Somalia, resilience can be strengthened through social protection
Somalis have traditionally engaged in pastoralism: a form of livestock production in which subsistence herding is the primary economic activity relying on the movement of herds and people. (Photo:...
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Cash it out? Why food-based programs exist, and how to improve them
© Dominic Chavez/World Bank India’s state of Chhattisgarh faced a daunting challenge in the mid-2000s. About half of its public food distribution was leaked, meaning that it never reached the intended...
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For social programs, social registries serve as a tool for inclusion
© Julia Pacheco/World Bank Celina Maria migrated from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro when she was just 17 and pregnant with twins, without completing her education and therefore have had difficulties finding...
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Using adaptive social protection to cope with crisis and build resilience
In a world increasingly filled with risk, social protection systems help individuals and families cope with civil war, natural disaster, displacement, and other shocks. © Farhana Asnap/World Bank...
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