Can Universal Basic Income really improve mental health?
Recent UBI trials reveal that guaranteed income provides immediate mental health relief, but sustaining long-term benefits may depend on lasting economic security.
Olivier De Schutter
Social protection: enhancing benefit take-up
Europe’s social-protection schemes are full of holes, affecting the most vulnerable most—but they can be fixed.
To end poverty, invest in children
The author presents a report today to the UN General Assembly on the persistence of poverty, following dialogues with people in poverty around the world.
The Global Fund for Social Protection: an idea whose time has come
The pandemic has highlighted the fragility of social protection, especially in the developing world. A new global fund is needed—and it’s affordable.