South-South Learning on Social Protection

Faced with responding to national needs, recovery plans in different countries are foreseeing job-centered measures. There is a wider case for public employment programmes as part of long-term employment policies. This is an area of policy debate with significant innovation at present in relation to the type and quality of work, working c...

Oyibi (ER), GNA - Ghana is on course to achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing by half the proportion of the population living in extreme poverty and those without safe drinking water ahead of the 2015 deadline. The country is also making significant progress in promoting gender equality and women empowerment, combating...

The New International Economic Order (NIEO), a formal set of proposals put forth by means of a UN resolution in 1974, created a new push for Southern global influence during the Cold War. The resolution states that the signatories support a new economic order "based on equity, sovereign equality, interdependence, common interest and cooperatio...

1 August 2011, With this summer’s debt-ceiling fiasco, it is clearer than ever that Washington’s leadership is not what it used to be. For that reason, there is a greater need for the U.S. to act in concert with other major powers to solve international problems. Much attention has justifiably focused on Brazil, Russia, India, China and South ...