Social Protection

Rethinking silver: Lessons from Japan’s age-ready cities

For the first time in human history, there are more people on our planet over the age of sixty-five than there are children under the age of five. Also for the first time, more people reside in…

Juergen Voegele|
Social Protection, Social Sustainability and Inclusion, Urban Development

Ten lessons from the largest scale up of cash transfers in history

What are we learning from the unprecedented social protection responses to Covid-19? This blog combines analysis of large datasets with a review of about 300 papers, evaluations, and practical…

Ugo Gentilini|
Competitiveness, Debt, Digital Development, Education, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Governance, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Social Protection

Did remittances really increase during the pandemic?

When the COVID-19 lockdown measures began, international organizations predicted a massive decline in remittances to developing countries. However, when the first 2020 figures became public…

Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, David Jaume, Eduardo Medina-Cortina|
Competitiveness, Financial Inclusion, Governance, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Poverty, Social Protection, Trade

Key ingredients to women’s legal rights in Kenya

A new Women, Business and the Law (WBL) case study examines enablers of the trajectory towards equal rights in Kenya, which started in the early 1990s, with gender equality permanently becoming,…

Catherine N. Githae, Emilia Galiano, Fredrick Nyagah , Isabel Santagostino Recavarren|
Gender, Education, Social Protection, Jobs & Development

Policy Research Working Paper series publication roundup for June 16-June 30, 2022

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group that were published in the World Bank’s Policy Research Working Paper Series. It introduces five…

Marcelo Buitron, Policy Research Working Paper team|
Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Education, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Health, Jobs & Development, Nutrition, Regional Integration, Social Protection, Social Sustainability and Inclusion, Water
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