In a small community off the coast of Sierra Leone, Salamatou Bangura often struggled to feed her children. Though she worked long hours buying and selling seafood from the local fisherman in her ...

Rania Antonopoulos is Director of the Gender Equality and the Economy Program at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York. Periods of economic upheaval are always destabilizing and, as ...

(opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) Copy Social protection programmes have the potential to create lasting improvements in older women’s ...

"The world does not lack the resources to abolish poverty, it lacks the right priorities. " So said Juan Somavía, former director general of the International Labour Organization (ILO), in 1999. We ...

Social protection features in numerous country policies and development agency strategies, as well as in several Sustainable Development Goals. However, following more than two decades of considerable ...

BEIRUT/LONDON – Since their inception in late-nineteenth-century Europe, social protection programs have been financed primarily through payroll contributions by workers and employers. These schemes ...

Automatically adjusted lifetime income is rare and worth protecting, our columnist says. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer is the author of Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and the economy.

“While women’s disadvantage in older age is mainly a result of discrimination throughout the life-course, the design of gender-sensitive pension systems is essential.” Gender equality and women’s ...

UNHCR’s assistance around the world has been performing the same role as social protection for many years. However, with most refugees in protracted situations and a small percentage of those ...

The World Bank Group supports India to improve the effectiveness of social protection (SP) systems to increase resilience to shocks that can force vulnerable populations into poverty. This includes ...