HOLD: Jordan’s poverty algorithm excludes people from rights ...Kuwait

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that the World Bank funded algorithmic program used by Jordan to determine eligibility for benefits “deprives people of their rights to social security.” The HRW report concluded that the Takaful program, an application that Jordanians use to apply for cash assistance, determines “who receives benefits based on errors, discriminatory policies and stereotypes about poverty.” “Many people in Jordan are not getting financial support because their hardships don’t fit an algorithm’s rigid model of what poverty should look like,” Amos Toh, senior technology and human rights researcher at HRW, said in a statement. Takaful was create

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