Publications

Key resources

• Report VI - Social security for social justice and a fair globalization - (3402 Kb)
  This report seeks to inform the debate during the 100th Session of the International Labour Conference in 2011 by providing: an overview of the present state of social security around the world; an identification of the main social security challenges; an overview of national and ILO responses to the challenges; and suggestions for the direction of future ILO action.
• World Social Security Report 2010: Providing coverage in the time of crisis and beyond - (6,008Kb)
  This report is the first of a series whose chief aim is to present the results of regular statistical monitoring of the state and developments of social security in the world. It provides a factual basis to support the development of national social security policies. It's main objective report is to present the knowledge available on coverage by social security in different parts of the world, and to identify existing coverage gaps.
• Extending Social Security to All. A guide through challenges and options - (pdf 6242Kb)
  This guide to the ILO approach to social security policy development sets out the development of a paradigm for the extension of social protection on the basis of an analysis of existing needs, existing old and new coverage patterns and the internationally recognized right to social security. It provides the evidence and information base for these policy considerations.
• Building Decent Societies (buy on-line)
  This book makes the case for a comprehensive social security system to be developed in all countries, including the poorest ones, in order to eliminate desperate conditions of poverty, to reverse growing inequality and to sustain economic growth. This is a co-publication with Palgrave Macmillan.