All posts tagged "poverty"

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  UN members see need for ramped-up progress on gender equality

  The world’s nations are lagging woefully behind in meeting targets for achieving gender equality by 2030, but a new round of initiatives has stirred hope of progress, writes Linda Robinson

  • Posted September 28, 2023
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  All or nothing? Central bank digital currencies’ financial inclusion challenge

  CBDCs are widely seen as having the potential to improve financial inclusion. Ian Hall reports on a webinar exploring technical, practical and public policy considerations Governments have growing interest in

  • Posted March 5, 2023
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  Will the pandemic pave the way for welfare reform? The UK’s former homelessness tsar sets out her vision

  It was the devastation of the Second World War that gave birth to the UK’s welfare state, and now, argues Louise Casey, the covid-19 pandemic provides the government with a

  • Posted September 12, 2021
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  Confronted with Canada’s grim history, we must strive to do better on inclusion

  Letter from Ottawa: The discovery of unmarked graves of children near former Indian residential schools has created waves of shock and anger across Canada. Michael Wernick, former deputy minister for

  • Posted July 19, 2021
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  US agencies tasked with annual diversity reporting in new Biden order

  President Biden has signed a new executive order aimed at removing the multiple workplace barriers faced by US federal employees from disadvantaged communities, with the aspiration of turning government administration

  • Posted July 1, 2021
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  Reset, Rebuild, Recover – leveraging digital technologies to respond to the social and economic impact of COVID-19

  Across the world, the economic stimulus response to COVID-19 far outsize those to the 2008 financial crisis – 33 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) versus 3.5 percent of GDP

  • Posted January 11, 2021
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  Former UK diplomatic chief warns of declining influence overseas

  The UK’s global influence is in decline, the former head of the country’s foreign office has argued – with Brexit and an over-controlling Number 10 at the heart of the

  • Posted September 14, 2020
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  Digital finance crucial to achieving sustainable development goals, says UN

  Unleashing the potential of digital finance could have a transformational impact on sustainable development, according to a report from a taskforce convened by the United Nations’ secretary-general. ‘People’s Money: Harnessing

  • Posted September 11, 2020
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  UK appoints head of merging foreign and aid departments

  Sir Philip Barton has been appointed permanent under-secretary at the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Barton will head up the new department, which is to be formed next

  • Posted August 4, 2020
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  Strength in numbers: combined authorities and the levelling up agenda

  Bringing together local authorities under city-regional mayors, combined authorities can achieve far more than individual councils. At a GGF webinar, public servants and economists considered their role in the government’s

  • Posted July 31, 2020
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