Assessing Targeting Options for Nepal’s Social Grants – What Does The Evidence Tell Us?
The Government of Nepal and development partners have been working together to develop a stronger evidence base to inform thinking about social protection policy and support the implementation and scale...
Debate over universal basic income steps up as IMF weighs impacts
14th August: An IMF paper has backed universal basic income as a better way of supporting low-income households than existing safety net programmes when these are “inefficient”. The paper, using...
Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes – Their Relevance For Nepal
Compared to countries with a similar level of economic development, Nepal is doing very well in terms of its commitment to social protection. Programmes such as the Senior Citizens’ Allowance,...
Reasons why technology cannot ‘transform’ India’s fight against poverty
In a widely shared NYT column Transforming the fight against poverty in India, Siddharth George (Doctoral candidate at Harvard) and Arvind Subramanian (Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance in India) make a compelling, if technocratic, argument to back their optimism that the seamless integration of technology solutions (the JAM trinity...
The impact of increased migration on the politics of social protection under spotlight
29th November: The politics of social protection and how this is affected by increased migration will be under the spotlight at a University of Cambridge event. The Politics of Social...
Gauntlet thrown down to social protection authorities to take forward realisation of rights
12th December: Social protection authorities can ensure programmes respect key human rights principles by assessing the impact on disadvantaged citizens and empowering them to seek redress. This is the message...
Why India is right to consider a universal basic income
The concept of a universal basic income is, somewhat surprisingly, receiving renewed attention from the Indian government. In recent interviews, the government’s Chief Economic Advisor, Dr. Arvind Subramanian, has called it an idea that ‘has a lot of promise.’ According to Dr. Subramanian, the next Economic Survey – an important...
India: The Basic Income Experiment
“The extra income created opportunities for people to start improving their lives.” In this Pathways Perspective, Rasmus looks at the effects of a basic income pilot project conducted in the...
Child protection momentum building as Government of Sri Lanka commits to bold action
The global drive to end violence against children is gaining momentum, with Sri Lanka one of the latest countries stepping up to tackle the issue of child protection. It is fantastic that Sri Lanka has joined the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children as a pathfinder country, to lead...
Preventing violence against children in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has shown leadership in mapping its child protection system and drafting a National policy on Child Protection. UNICEF’s country discussion paper, which Development Pathways contributed to, identifies the...