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UNDP calls for temporary basic income to help world’s poorest women cope with effects of COVID-19 pandemic
New York, 4 March 2021 – A temporary basic income (TBI) given specifically to hundreds of millions of women in the world’s developing countries could prevent rising poverty and widening gender inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report out today .Women have been harder hit than men by the pandemic, losing income and leaving the labour market at a greater rate and taking on a greater share of care […]
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