A wider safety net: leveraging social insurance to protect workers in the informal sector

Having finished my dream internship in Washington DC, I wondered about this question a lot in the last few months--what is next? Ideally,...

I came to a policy school with an aim to build hard skills that could supplement my field understanding of development issues. Thus, I...

Women face a motherhood penalty. Women often have to drop out of the workforce after childbirth and never be able to return. The result...

Maternity protection is more than protecting the health of the mother and the child. While these are crucial, maternity protection needs...

It is easy to work at an institution like the World Bank that holds a lot of power, credibility, and capital and recommend technical...

One of the first things I learnt in Social Policy class at Harvard Kennedy School is that even though citizens in poor countries need...

I joined the World Bank Group’s Social Protection and Jobs practice as a Summer Intern in May 2022. While I had dreamed of working...

Before joining Harvard Kennedy School, I worked at Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a large NGO that works with women in India’s...