Large-scale mining in Brazil has had a positive impact on the socio-economic welfare of local municipalities, including boosting household income and helping to reduce illiteracy, according to a new report from International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM).
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been used in Tajikistan to map the delivery of social care services as part of the country’s drive to modernise social care services for children and adults, including the elderly and people with disabilities.
Serbia has published its first Palliative Medicine handbook for undergraduates, developed by experts working on the EU-funded project ‘Development of Palliative Care Services in the Republic of Serbia’.
Kenya’s Hunger Safety Net programme could significantly improve its ability to reach the poorest households with cash transfers by combining Community-Based Targeting and Proxy Means Testing, according to an evaluation of the programme.
Institutional and technical constraints make large-scale poverty targeting unviable in the Republic of Congo. Instead, by adopting a universal allowance for children under the age of five, the national poverty headcount could be reduced by 9% at a cost of just 0.7% of GDP, according to a new Working Paper produced for UNICEF.
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