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Empowering Change & Resilience: Social Protection in the Age of Megatrends

BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct 07 (IPS) - Social protection systems are essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

However, social protection is insufficient across Asia and the Pacific, and the region is at risk from megatrends: climate change, demographic shifts and digitalization. Tens of millions of people have been pushed into extreme poverty since COVID-19, reversing past gains, and many millions more live precariously just above the poverty line.

Read the full story, “Empowering Change & Resilience: Social Protection in the Age of Megatrends”, on globalissues.org



source https://www.globalissues.org/news/2024/10/07/37890

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