Social protection - Matches

Hello, PIDS friends! Here's our #PIDSFactFriday for the week on Filipino migrant workers.A PIDS study that looked into the access to social protecti..

It would be “more challenging” for the Philippines to reduce poverty and return to its pre-pandemic growth path with the COVID-19 pandemic..

A significant proportion of Filipino migrant workers can be categorized as ‘potentially vulnerable’ due to lack of access to social protec..

Providing the indigent elderly with a monthly allowance is a good response to improving the plight of seniors among the poor and vulnerable. With the ..

The Social Pension (SocPen) program, which provides needy senior citizens with a noncontributory monthly pension of PHP 500, has considerably widened ..

#PIDSInfoBits: Did you know that majority of the poor in the Philippines are households headed by those engaged in agriculture?In 2018, about 52.4 per..

Lifting Filipinos out of poverty is essential to achieve the Philippine Development Plan 2017–2022 target of becoming an upper middle-income country..

The Philippines aspires to be an upper middle-income country by 2022 as stated in the 2017–2022 Philippine Development Plan. It has also committed t..

The COVID-19 pandemic has such a wide-reaching and sudden adverse impact on people’s livelihoods. For a country like the Philippines which significa..

Since 2011, the government, through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), has implemented the Social Pension (SocPen) Program which..

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates socioeconomic challenges and underscores the need for better social protection schemes in the Asia-Pacific region.&n..

The Philippines, a country prone to natural calamities and vulnerable to economic fluctuations, has much to accomplish in improving workers’ access ..

This quarter’s Development Research News (DRN) focuses on the opportunities and challenges of the digital economy. The banner story reports on how t..

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technologies that enable telecommuting and virtual collaboration schemes. However, it has als..

Platform work has the potential to help women reconcile the age-old conflict between unpaid work and market work. However, there is a degree of preca..