Resources on social protection

  1. Making Decent Work a Reality for Domestic Workers Swedish funding towards Outcome 5 (Final evaluation summary)

    23 July 2014

    Project: GLO/11/54/SID - Evaluation Consultant: Una Murray

  2. Impact of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on child labour

    30 January 2014

    This study examines the incidence of child labour under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), which does not allow for the employment of a person below 18 years of age.

  3. Cash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and empowerment of women: A comparative analysis

    23 December 2013

    This comparative analysis aims to help the ILO generate new thinking on ways to improve the impact of cash transfer programmes on women's poverty alleviation and economic empowerment. Key findings relate to selected cash transfer programmes from five countries: Brazil, Chile, India, Mexico and South Africa.

  4. A changing world: Adapting to an ageing population in the workplace

    01 December 2011

    With better health and longevity, lower birth rates, and the ageing of baby boomers, the world is seeing a major change in demographic trends.

  5. Social security and ageing populations in developing countries

    01 May 2011

    It is common knowledge that life expectancy in Western countries has increased over the past several decades and will continue to rise. However, it may come as a surprise to some that the ratio of elderly people is rising faster in the developing world than in industrialized countries.

  6. Shining a light of hope: Occupational safety and health in the informal economy. Hundreds of millions of workers worldwide suffer from work-related diseases and accidents.

    09 July 2008

    The ILO estimates that hundreds of millions of workers worldwide suffer from work-related diseases and accidents, the poorest and the least protected being the worst sufferers. Bringing occupational safety and health to those working and living in the informal economy represents a particular challenge as this report from the slums of Pune in India shows.