In the last decade, the World Bank has stepped up its advocacy of poverty targeting as the basis for tax-financed social protection schemes in low- and middle-income countries by promoting social registries. These are large data bases, in theory covering the whole population, which are used to poverty target multiple … Continue reading The World Bank’s State of Social Protection Report 2025: The 2-Billion Person Challenge Shows That It Is Not Learning Its Own Lessons – Part 2Continue Reading