App-based monitoring of subsidised cooking oil and fuel distribution may deny access to intended recipients coming from low-income families.
Baltimore City is the latest to pilot a policy solution to poverty that's gaining momentum across the nation: guaranteed income, which places no-strings-attached cash directly in the hands of residents who need it most. In ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most serious public health crisis in a century. It resulted in governments taking unprecedented powers to regulate people's social lives, and undertaking substantial fiscal interventions ...
Artificial intelligence is a fifth more accurate at predicting whether individuals are likely to become long-term recipients of benefits.
Around 600,000 people are released annually from the U.S."s sprawling prisons network.
School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2)assistant professor Amy Castro Baker set out to answer this question: What would happen to a person in or near poverty who received no-strings-attached guaranteed payments every month? ...
Blood transfusions are a common procedure in medical practice in which donated blood is used to replace blood lost to injury or surgery or to treat serious medical conditions. The procedure is not performed as routinely in ...
They won't devour insects with leafy jaws, but with help from carnivorous plant genes, tomatoes, tobacco and other crops could one day better defend themselves from pathogenic fungi and insects. An international team of researchers ...
Since the mid-1990s, new approaches to poverty reduction have been introduced in countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Some have involved income transfer programs that target poorer citizens based on various means ...
During COVID-19 the government ran what turned out to be a giant real-world experiment into what happens when you boost someone's unemployment benefits and free them of the "mutual obligation" to apply for jobs.
