ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on low income urban area housing and employment creation in developing countries - covers housing needs, investment requirements, and the labour cost of informal sector residential construction; concludes that the satisfaction of basic needs depends on higher...

Reviews the evidence about the link between access to microfinance and women's empowerment.

Examines the impact of globalization on those who work in the informal economy, with a special emphasis on women workers and producers.

Indonesia launched the national health insurance program - Jaminan Kesehatan National (JKN), on January 1, 2014, and aims to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2019. Achieving UHC means not only increasing the number of people covered but also expanding the benefits package and ensuring...

Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in...