Poverty & Social Protection
After decades of strong growth, large countries such as India, Indonesia, and Pakistan now have the economic activity to conduct large-scale social protection programs to reduce their still-significant poverty rates. How can governments best identify and reach the poor?
After decades of strong growth, large countries such as India, Indonesia, and Pakistan now have the economic activity to conduct large-scale social protection programs to reduce their still-significant poverty rates. How can governments best identify and reach the poor?
Highlights
News, events, and insights from our policy-research engagements on social protection programs that aim to relieve poverty.
The Municipality of Lima worked with MPAID students led by Rema Hanna to identify policy strategies for a sustainable response.
Rema Hanna on the urgency of social protection policies in addressing economic impacts of COVID-19 in fragile states.
Fuel subsidies are politically impossible to abandon—but with oil prices at historic lows, this problem has disappeared.