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The Pitfalls of Poverty Targeting

More than half of the target population has not been able to access a lifesaving South African social assistance transfer aimed at alleviating extreme poverty amongst working-age adults. 

The pitfalls of poverty targeting: Systemic exclusion from a South African social assistance transfer – Development Pathways

The World Bank’s Social Protection Report

Today, more people have access to social protection now than at any point in history. Over the last decade, 4.7 billion people across low- and middle-income countries gained access to social protection. However, critical gaps remain. Two billion people in those countries remain uncovered or inadequately covered by social protection.

The State of Social Protection Report 2025: The 2-Billion-Person Challenge documents advances and challenges to strengthening social protection and labor systems across low- and middle-income countries and discusses avenues to gradually close the coverage and adequacy gap for the world’s poorest.

Development Finance against Austerity

Aid agencies across Europe and North America are seeing their budgets slashed. Replenishments to multilateral agencies from the International Development Association (IDA) through Gavi to the Global Fund are under threat. The countries most at risk are those most reliant on foreign assistance to fund investments in areas from infrastructure through health and education: the least developed countries where aid has traditionally accounted for more than six percent of GNI but (even before the recent cuts) that has dropped closer to four percent.

How Development Finance Institutions Can Help in a Time of Aid Austerity | Center For Global Development

US: Liberation from what?

Import taxes will be passed onto the consumer, while the rich will prosper from slashed taxes.

‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Will Concentrate Wealth Even More – Inequality.org

Defence or Welfare?

Amidst geopolitical shifts, the notion that Europe must choose between security and social support is not only politically dangerous but also economically unsound.

Defence or Welfare? Europe Can Afford Both, and Must

USP2030 and the World Social Summit

Joint message with key message and recommendations

FINAL_WSSD_USP2030 Joint Statement

Workers should not pay the price of a trade war

The ITUC is deeply concerned by the reckless trade measures announced by the Trump administration.

Workers must not pay the price of an imposed trade war – International Trade Union Confederation

IMF’s Finance & Development

In search of the invisible hand of markets!

In Search of the Invisible Hand

Words, words, words…

A more than interesting piece on how to use words… inequity or iniquity?

“All social protection interventions are equal, but some are more equal than others”, with apologies to George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) – Development Pathways

A golden opportunity to promote global justice

Counterintuitive as it may seem, a crumbling world order offers the EU a golden opportunity to champion justice, multilateralism, and the fight against inequality.

Why the UN aid summit is the EU’s best shot at financial justice

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