The proposed cash transfer scheme to support the food needs of some of the most deserving urban poor has met quite some flak from commentators, including MPs. This sort of controversy is not unusual ...

Social protection and labor programs help households and workers manage crises, escape poverty, navigate transitions, and seize employment opportunities. Despite recent progress, three in four people ...

Ghana’s cocoa farmers built this nation. They financed our schools, our roads, our hospitals and our foreign reserves. Yet for decades, when age caught up with them, the system offered them nothing ...

Countries across the world aim to provide social protection for all citizens or residents, generally by a combination of public social insurance and social assistance. Social protection, or social ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in full support of the Federal Government’s ongoing economic reforms but says a social protection scheme for the vulnerable will make the restructuring even ...

Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary TD has warned employees to ensure they understand what they would be entitled to under the new auto-enrolment pension scheme before they agree to join ...