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… the short term (ECLAC, 2020d; Rubio and others, 2020)— to cover the population not enrolled in social security … (payable to mothers in single-parent families). They cover an estimated total of 70 million people. Between … designed for the poor but which are insufficient to cover the broad swaths of the population affected by the …
… Foundation thanks Save the Children for providing the cover image for this bulletin. The picture captures a man and … Foundation thanks Save the Children for providing the cover image for this bulletin. The picture captures a man and …
… health services. In Mexico, resources are set aside to cover the costs of additional health services demanded due to … health services. In Mexico, resources are set aside to cover the costs of additional health services demanded due to …
Several developing economies have recently introduced conditional cash transfer programs, which provide money to poor families contingent on certain behavior, usually investments in human capital, such as sending children to school or bringing them to health centers. Evaluation results for programs launched in Colombia, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Turkey reveal successes in addressing many of the failures in delivering social assistance, such as weak poverty targeting, disincentive effects, and limited welfare impacts. Many questions remain unanswered, however, including the…
The assessment reviews the situation of children outside parental care in ten countries in the Caribbean (as a sample of CARICOM member states). The central finding of this assessment is that efforts in the Caribbean to respond to children without parental care have been insufficient. This is attributed to a serious absence of strategies designed to support families to keep children at home, to prevent abuse and separation, to provide reintegration and long term rehabilitation services, and to ensure follow up and monitoring of children placed in temporary care.…