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Adaptive Social Protection Agenda Lessons from Responses to COVID-19 Shock: The State of Social Protection Report 2025 Background Paper #2
The paper examines the social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic across 76 emerging and developing economies (EDEs) ...
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Role of social workers in addressing marginalized communities bearing brunt of climate disasters
A researcher spent a year living in a jjokbang-chon, an extremely impoverished neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea. While there, he calculated residents' carbon footprints, finding they contribute much ...
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JK Paper Gujarat Unit Hit by Worker Strike
Production at JK Paper's Gujarat unit has been partially impacted due to a worker strike. The company is in talks with unions to resolve the issue. New Delhi, Mar 17 (PTI) JK Paper Ltd on Monday said ...
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I worked for the DWP – Labour’s plan to get benefit claimants into work is doomed
Plans to use Jobcentres to push more benefits claimants into work are doomed to fail, Labour ministers have been warned. A former Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits decision maker ...
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A social worker who tried to mediate during the 2019 protests in Hong Kong is convicted of rioting
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Hong Kong social worker Jackie Chen stands in front of the District Court building in Wan Chai, Hong Kong ...