02/04/2024 10:05 AM

The world is dealing with multiple, entangled crises caused by systemic risks, including climate change, zoonotic diseases political unrest and conflicts. Income inequality has been on the rise in many countries while unequal social opportunities and access to decent employment, quality education and health care or to productive assets, such as land and credit, continue to persist within and across countries. Creating productive employment and ensure social security for all is a proven pathway to reduce inequality in a sustained manner.

01/04/2024 07:10 AM

Policymakers, health care systems, and families are all facing the question of how to provide high-quality long-term care and how to finance that care growing senior population. According to the World Health Organization, “Long-term care includes a broad range of personal, social, and medical services and support that ensure people with, or at risk of, a significant loss of intrinsic capacity (due to mental or physical illness and disability) can maintain a level of functional ability consistent with their basic rights and human dignity.” (WHO, 2022)

29/03/2024 09:25 AM

Since the World Health Organization declared tuberculosis (TB) to be a global health emergency in 1993, global efforts to address TB have become more prominent, and worldwide TB incidence and mortality rates have fallen. In Viet Nam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh recently ordered efforts to be exerted to enhance the tuberculosis (TB) prevention and control efforts.

27/03/2024 05:45 PM

Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW, issued on May 23, 2018 of the Party Central Committee, is considered to have the contents of reforming the social insurance policy progressively, approaching social security standards in Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labor Organization (ILO). The improvement of the reform-oriented social insurance policy in line with Resolution No. 28 will create new breakthroughs, the interests of social insurance participants will be increasingly better guaranteed.

27/03/2024 10:30 AM

Việt Nam will prioritise sending workers to potential markets to take safe, relevant jobs that bring high incomes.

25/03/2024 12:45 PM

Pension increases in retirement are important as they help your pension keep pace with inflation. Not all pension arrangements include pension increases.

22/03/2024 10:30 AM

Many of the countries the extension of social security coverage to workers in the informal economy on two broad policy approaches: Extension of coverage through contributory mechanisms; Extension of coverage through non-contributory mechanisms ensure the principle of universal protection, while taking into account the contributory capacities of different groups of the population.

21/03/2024 05:45 PM

Amid numerous difficulties and uncertainties in the global situation last year, Viet Nam has obtained significant results, making breakthroughs and historic achievements. These have become a “highly impressive bright spot” in the country’s achievements over the last more than half of the 13th National Party Congress as assessed by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.