Social Protection in the News

• 29 May 2013
  South Africa: Poor children who receive grants stay longer at school and perform better.
  AllAfrica.com

• 21 May 2013
  Making cash transfers work: Some options.
  livemint & The Wall Street Journal

• 29 April 2013
  Social protection measures key in fight against child labour, says new UN report.
  UN News Centre

• 18 April 2013
  Grandparents also entitled to foster care grant.
  Business Day

• 13 March 2013
  UK to channel £9m in aid through Rwanda government programme.
  The Guardian

• 3 March 2013
  Jamaica testing conditional cash transfer job training initiative.
  Caribbean Journal

• 27 February 2013
  Budget: Pension means test to be phased out.
  iol.co.za Business Report

• 27 February 2013
  The case for social grants.
  moneyweb.co.za

• 26 February 2013
  Cash transfers: Merits and demerits.
  The Economic Times (India)

• 13 February 2013
  Avoiding the Curse of the Oil-Rich Nations.
  The New York Times

• 15 January 2013
  Brazilians support Bolsa Família welfare.
  The Rio Times

• 5 January 2013
  India aims to keep money for poor out of others’ pockets.
  The New York Times

• 1 January 2013
  India rolls out cash transfer scheme for poor.
  BBC News

• 26 December 2012
  How Mrs. Munda makes cash transfers go.
  The Wall Street Journal Blog

• 26 December 2012
  India’s cash transfers for the poor face early hurdles.
  The Wall Street Journal

• 22 December 2012
  Show me the money!
  The Week

• 17 December 2012
  Malawi: Poor farmers get cash through mobile phones.
  AllAfrica.com

• 13 December 2012
  Mobile cash for emergency response in Kenya.
  AlertNet

• 9 December 2012
  Malawi President launches K10bn public works programme: Economic recovery.
  Nyasa Times

• 25 November 2012
  Aadhar-based direct cash transfers to citizens to start in 51 districts.
  Hindustan Times

• 23 November 2012
  Coverage for people with HIV/AIDS must be clear.
  The Jakarta Post

• 22 November 2012
  Pakistan ID cards remove ghost voters, target poor for aid.
  The Chicago Tribune

• 20 November 2012
  Prioritising social security: Call for increased spending on social welfare projects.
  The Express Tribune (Pakistan)

• 20 November 2012
  Somalia: Cash transfers for social protection.
  AllAfrica.com

• 10 November 2012
  Money where your mouth is: A debate is growing about how to get welfare to the needy.
  The Economist

• 10 November 2012
  Cash, with strings: Why India should hand out cash, rather than fuel and food, to the needy.
  The Economist

• 8 November 2012
  Africa: Technology and humanitarian relief.
  AllAfrica.com

• 25 October 2012
  Grant beneficiary numbers to soar.
  Sowetan

• 13 October 2012
  Gini back in the bottle: An unequal continent is becoming less so.
  The Economist

• 9 October 2012
  UN calls for $20bn to fund social safety nets in world’s poorest countries.
  The Guardian

• 29 September 2012
  South Africa’s living standards improve.
  iAfrica.com

• 20 September 2012
  Nigeria: Two states take the initiative on social pensions.
  Think Africa Press

• 11 September 2012
  Kenyan study shows that cash-transfer payments reduce sexual risk.
  The Guardian

• 1 August 2012
  Cash transfer programme to benefit orphans.
  The Zimbabwean

• 30 July 2012
  More than 2.5 million MasterCard debit cards issued to social welfare beneficiaries in South Africa.
  Bloomberg BusinessWeek

• 27 July 2012
  Cash Transfer Programme part of plan to break ‘poverty cycle’.
  The Bahamas Weekly

• 25 July 2012
  Department of Social Development investigating Bolsa-Familia-type grant.
  South African Government News Agency

• 18 July 2012
  Cash transfer program to help Philippines meet MDGs.
  The Philippine Star

• 13 July 2012
  LEAP gets donor support.
  AllAfrica.com

• 7 July 2012
  Ghana increases LEAP cash transfer.
  Ghana News Agency

• 31 May 2012
  Child Support Grants prove critical to reducing child poverty in South Africa.
  UNICEF press release

• 25 May 2012
  Child grant helps break cycle of poverty.
  Business Day

• 25 May 2012
  Control and dignity: making the case for social protection in Somalia.
  The Guardian

• 20 March 2012
  Rwanda: With World Bank assistance, Rwanda to expand social protection to half a million poor people by 2013.
  AllAfrica.com, World Bank press release

• 7 March 2012
  Child grants work: study.
  iAfrica.com

• 17 February 2012
  Africa: Spending your way out of TB infection.
  AllAfrica.com

• 15 February 2012
  Preventing AIDS: A drug called money.
  The Economist

• 15 February 2012
  Cash payments help cut HIV infection rate in young women, study finds.
  The Guardian

• 3 February 2012
  UK should use more cash transfers and manage them better, say MPs.
  The Guardian

• 19 October 2011
  Technology makes cash transfers safer in Kenya.
  Voice of America

• 4 October 2011
  WFP launches phone cash transfers to reach Ivorians.
  AlertNet

• 28 September 2011
  Zimbabwe to introduce cash transfer scheme.
  The Guardian

• 22 September 2011
  WTO, ILO push social protection for fairer globalization gains.
  Business World Online

• 22 September 2011
  South Africa – Why a universal income grant makes sense.
  AllAfrica.com

• 16 September 2011
  Small amounts of cash make a big difference.
  Inter Press Service Africa

• 15 September 2011
  UNICEF offers food vouchers, cash transfers in Somalia.
  AlertNet

• 3 August 2011
  GiveDirectly: a charity that just gives money to poor people, so they’re not so poor.
  Time Magazine

• 1 August 2011
  Cash transfers provide social protection to Zambia’s most vulnerable families.
  UNICEF

• 24 July 2011
  Orissa to start cash transfer scheme for pregnant women.
  Express India

• 20 July 2011
  Record donor aid, record costs.
  IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis

• 7 July 2011
  Beyond growth: the importance of inclusion.
  Huffington Post

• 16 June 2011
  Efforts to step up social security nets grow.
  allAfrica.com

• 16 June 2011
  Out of touch: the World Bank is a few steps behind.
  Forbes Business India

• 12 June 2011
  Banking via a cellphone and a shack.
  The Wall Street Journal

• 10 June 2011
  World Bank approves $125m for Watan cards.
  The Tribune

• 8 June 2011
  Families in Action pays mothers to improve health.
  The Los Angeles Times

• 19 May 2011
  World Bank prefers cash transfers to “leaking” public distribution systems (PDS).
  The Times of India

• 18 May 2011
  India’s anti-poverty programs are big but troubled.
  The New York Times

• 17 May 2011
  Social protection: from handouts to social justice.
  The Guardian

• 16 May 2011
  Conditional cash transfers: bringing households out of poverty.
  Afrique en Ligne

• 6 May 2011
  Doubts over role of cash transfers in women’s empowerment.
  IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis

• 2 May 2011
  Pensions have a positive impact on development.
  The Guardian

• 27 April 2011
  Is social protection the next big idea to combat poverty?
  The Guardian

• 23 April 2011
  Why carry cash when you can phone it in?
  The Guardian

• 22 April 2011
  UNICEF introduces social cash transfer.
  The Zimbabwean

• 7 April 2011
  Spreading the wealth.
  Foreign Policy

• 15 March 2011
  Memos from the developing world: the State and me.
  Huffington Post

• 4 March 2011
  Helping the world’s poor? There’s an app for that.
  Miller-McCune

• 2 March 2011
  The siren song of cash transfers.
  The Hindu

• 28 February 2011
  India announces changes in subsidies, will hand out cash to its poor.
  Washington Post

• 25 February 2011
  Money to the people.
  Slate

• 23 February 2011
  Social safety net gets more money.
  Fin24

• 15 February 2011
  Govt plans to help its senior citizens.
  The Citizen (Tanzania)

• 14 February 2011
  UN pushes for social schemes to protect poor at mere fraction of national wealth.
  UN News Centre

• 7 January 2011
  Helping the world’s poorest, for a change.
  The New York Times

• 3 January 2011
  To beat back poverty, pay the poor.
  The New York Times

• 27 December 2010
  Welcome to welfare 2.0 for the world’s poor.
  Newsweek

• 25 October 2010
  A new fix for the needy.
  Newsweek

• 18 June 2010
  South Africa: between two worlds
  Forbes.com