Social protection - Matches

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

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..

In a developing country such as the Philippines, social protection is crucial in providing support to the poor and vulnerable. There has been recent p..

This study evaluates the impact of Microenterprise Development (MD) assistance on the labor supply, income, expenditure, savings, and capital investme..

The landscape of life and work, once shaped by the advancements in the field of information and communications technology is being disrupted once agai..

The emergence of digital labor platforms has broadened market work opportunities although certain segments of the population, such as women and those ..

A study published by state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) found that women in the Philippines have less access to soci..

The Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) is a livelihood assistance program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development targeting working-age ..

The Philippines, being prone to natural calamities and vulnerable to economic fluctuations, has much to accomplish in terms of improving its populati..