UN News Center (10.07.2015) According to a new joint United Nations agency report, an additional $160 per year for each person living in extreme poverty would end chronic hunger – and additional investments of an estimated $267 billion annually in social protection and in rural and urban areas would sustainably eradicate world hunger by 2030.
El País (08.07.2015) Las reformas acometidas en los últimos años y la presión de la sociedad latinoamericana por avanzar contra la pobreza o lograr mejores servicios públicos son, en opinión del mexicano Jorge Familiar, las mejoras salvaguardas ante un horizonte económico que vuelve a nublarse.
Les Echos (08.07.2015) Selon une étude PwC, les pays de l’OCDE pourraient gagner chacun plusieurs milliards de dollars supplémentaires s’ils exploitaient pleinement le potentiel économique de leurs travailleurs seniors.
Le Quotidien (09.07.2015) Le Luxembourg est le pays de l’Union qui consacre la plus grande partie de sa dépense publique à la protection sociale. Une situation inquiétante à long terme.
rappler.com (08.07.2015) 'Does Pantawid deliver the intended results? The evidence says yes,' writes the country director of the Asian Development Bank
The Namibian (09.07.2015) Labour, industrial relations and employment creation minister Erkki Nghimtina says the Social Security Commission (SSC) of Namibia is working hard to establish the National Pension Fund and the National Medical Benefit Fund as mandated by the Social Security Act, 1994.
EurActiv (08.07.2015) The European Commission’s drive to simplify legislation for businesses – the Better Regulation Agenda – has come under fire from trade unions for blocking EU laws that could save thousands of lives per year.
allAfrica.com (08.07.2015) At least 55 per cent of the world's poor (about 770 million) people are living in dire condition and require urgent socio-economic relief, the World Bank Group's 2015 state of social safety nets report says.
newkerala.com (08.07.2015) The senior United Nations official who will act as head of the upcoming Third International Conference of Financing for Development, to be held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, announced today that among the meeting's "concrete deliverables" would be a commitment to establish a new technology bank for the least developed countries by 2017.
Le Parisien (02.07.2015) Peut mieux faire. Alors que d'importants efforts ont déjà été accomplis ces derniers années, la Sécurité sociale propose de nouvelles mesures imparables pour réduire son déficit censé être abaissé à 13 milliards d'euros en 2015.
