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 ...

Today, the Council approved conclusions on social protection for the self-employed in implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights. Self-employed workers are key players in European economy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...