East African countries are not spending enough on social protection forcing the region's poor to remain outside the social safety net system, which in turn undermines efforts to reduce the poverty gap across the region.
Sputniknews (09.09.2015) Almost 50 million EU residents live without enough money even to heat their homes, Oxfam reported, citing bending the rules by wealthy elites among the reasons.
lesechos.fr (09.09.2015) Plus de 120 millions de personnes sont exposées au risque de pauvreté en Europe selon le rapport établi par l’ONG Oxfam. Leaders politiques, système fiscaux injustes et mesures d’austérité sont en cause.
The Guardian (07.09.2015) Single parents on low incomes face declining living standards over the next five years even if they work full time, as benefits cuts announced in the budget more than offset the introduction of George Osborne’s “national living wage”, according to new research.
La Tribune (01.09.2015) Le ministère avait décidé d'augmenter de 10% sur cinq ans ce revenu minimum destiné aux personnes sans ressources. Il met progressivement en oeuvre sa promesse.
The Daily Star (31.08.2015) The honourable Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina has promised to eradicate extreme poverty by 2021 and has made remarkable progress towards this goal. Over the past five years, an estimated 10 million people have made the catalytic leap out of extreme poverty and onto the first rung of the economic ladder. This has been possible because our government has recognized the extreme poor as a group very different from the poor, a group with different needs.
Brookings Institution (30.06.2015) India today is already richer than Germany was when it introduced social insurance for all workers in the late 1880s. Indonesia is richer than the United States was in 1935, when the Social Security Act was passed. And China is richer than Britain was in 1948, when the National Health Service was introduced. So what can we learn from comparing developing countries today to richer countries when those countries were at equivalent levels of economic development?
rappler.com (18.08.2015) An additional $267 billion (P12 trillion)* is needed to be invested annually in social protection programs for global hunger to be eliminated by 2030, a recent report by the United Nations (UN) said.
The Express Tribune (14.07.2015) Federal health authorities and the anti-poverty scheme named after former prime minister Benazir Bhutto have joined forces to introduce conditional cash transfers (CCT) for maternal and child health improvement.
unmultimedia.org (06.08.2015) Selon un nouveau rapport des trois agences alimentaires de l'ONU présentes à Rome, l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), le Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA) et le Programme alimentaire mondial(PAM), 267 milliards de dollars par an seront nécessaires pour l'éradication de la faim dans le monde d'ici 2030, un objectif clé des ODD qui seront adoptés en septembre 2015. Le rapport souligne les investissements en milieu rural et urbain et les mesures de protection sociale.
