Publications and tools

2012

  1. Cambodia. Social Security for the formal economy. Outlook and challenges ahead

    01 January 2012

    ILO/EU/Cambodia/R.7

  2. Cambodia. Social protection expenditure and performance review

    01 January 2012

    ILO/EU/Cambodia/R.4

  3. Methods for estimating the poverty lines. Four country case studies

    01 January 2012

    This report provides international examples of poverty line estimations and serves as a reference for further policy formulation in Kazakhstan. It constitutes the second volume of the final report of the ILO technical assistance activity on assessing and improving the methodologies of the subsistence minimum calculation in Kazakhstan. The first volume is focused on the subsistence minimum calculation methodology and determination.

  4. Cambodia. Financial assessment of the National Social Protection Strategy for the Poor and Vulnerable

    01 January 2012

    ILO/EU/Cambodia/R.6

  5. Cambodia. Toward integrated employment and social protection policies

    01 January 2012

  6. Cambodia. Toward a national employment strategy for sustained poverty reduction

    01 January 2012

    The study includes analysis of the labour market, particularly with regard to vulnerable groups, meeting the employment challenges through sectoral policies, and reinforcing the link between poverty reduction through inclusive employment and labour market policies and extension of the social protection floor. To develop the elements of National Employment Policy, the study calls for further in-depth analysis: to identify some benchmark indicators to monitor employment and labour market performances; to review Cambodia’s existing and dynamic comparative advantages; to finding ways of developing and improving livelihoods in the rural areas; to assess the constraints faced in implementing the recent Labour Law; and to further develop active labour market policies and its implementation structure across institutions.

  7. Building a social protection floor (SPF) in Thailand

    01 January 2012

    Factsheet on the UN Social Protection Floor team's activities in Thailand in the framework of the United Nations Partnership Framework (UNPAF) on social protection.

  8. The methodologies of the subsistence minimum determination in Kazakhstan. The Ways and approaches to improve

    01 January 2012

    This report consists of four analytical chapters and conclusions which also include recommendations. Chapter 1 describes how to rationally estimate the (non-food) subsistence minimum. Here, the focus is given to two measurement methodologies: Engel’s coeffi cient method and the Regression method. Chapter 2 reviews the history of the subsistence minimum in Kazakhstan and on how to improve its measurement on the basis of scientifi c methods and international practice. Chapter 3 estimates the non-food and total subsistence minimum for 2007–2009 at national and regional (oblast) levels. Chapter 4 centres on the advantage and disadvantage of relative poverty lines. In the conclusions, the main points of discussion from Chapters 1–4 are summarized and the recommendations of future policy options are provided, which Kazakhstan might consider in order to improve its poverty line analysis. This document constitutes the second volume of the final report of the ILO technical assistance activity on assessing and improving the methodologies of the subsistence minimum calculation in Kazakhstan. The second volume provides international examples of poverty line estimations and serves as a reference for further policy formulation in Kazakhstan.

  9. South-South and triangular cooperation. Implementation of gender sensitive social protection floors at country level

    01 January 2012

  10. The political economy of pension reforms in times of global crisis. State unilateralism or social dialogue?

    01 January 2012

    This paper examines the political economy of pension reforms in times of economic crisis and its impact on social dialogue and tripartite institutions.

  11. Social security for all. The ILO social protection floors Recommendation

    01 January 2012

    Social security for all briefing note, June 2012

  12. Towards effective and fiscally sustainable Social Protection Floors

    01 January 2012

    This document is the preliminary report prepared for the meeting of the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers in Guadalajara (Mexico), 17-18 May 2012, on the state of ILO-IMF collaboration in exploring the fiscal feasibility of national social protection floors in selected countries. The report stresses that the ILO-IMF collaboration has been crucial in demonstrating that even in low- and lower-middle-income countries such as Mozambique, El Salvador and Viet Nam, basic social protection floor measures are affordable and can be implemented gradually and over time without worsening the outlook for debt and fiscal sustainability.

  13. Employment injury protection in Serbia. Issues and options

    01 January 2012

  14. Social protection and minimum wages responses to the 2008 financial and economic crisis: Findings from the ILO/World Bank Inventory

    01 January 2012

    Employment Working Paper No. 113

  15. Social protection floors for social justice and a fair globalization. Report IV 2(B)

    01 January 2012

    The Governing Body has placed a standard-setting item on the agenda of the 101st Session (2012) of the International Labour Conference (ILC) on social protection (social security), with a view to the elaboration of an autonomous Recommendation on the social protection floor (single discussion). This Volume 2(B) of this Report IV contains the French and English versions of the proposed text which, if the Conference so decides, will be the basis for discussion of the standard-setting item on the elaboration of an autonomous Recommendation on the social protection floor at its 101st Session (2012).

  16. Social protection floors for social justice and a fair globalization. Report IV(2A)

    01 January 2012

    The Governing Body has placed a standard-setting item on the agenda of the 101st Session (2012) of the International Labour Conference (ILC) on social protection (social security), with a view to the elaboration of an autonomous Recommendation on the social protection floor (single discussion). This report (Volume 2(A)) was prepared on the basis of the replies received from governments and organizations of employers and workers to the questionnaire contained in Report VI(1) and contains the substance of their observations together with the Office’s commentary on the replies and on the proposed text of the Recommendation. Volume 2(B) of this Report IV contains the French and English versions of the proposed text which, if the Conference so decides, will be the basis for discussion of the standard-setting item on the elaboration of an autonomous Recommendation on the social protection floor at its 101st Session (2012).

  17. Semi-conditional cash transfers in the form of family allowances for children and adolescents in the informal economy in Argentina

    01 January 2012

    In 2009, Argentina introduced a new transfer programme for children and adolescents younger than age 18 (Universal Child Allowance) that extended coverage under the contributory programme for family allowances to include families in the informal economy and families of unemployed persons. This article describes this innovative programme, compares it with similar programmes in Latin America and analyses its impact on coverage and its possible effects on the welfare of the population. The results indicate that the extension of access to this type of benefit has reduced considerably the coverage gap for the poor and indigent and supports efforts to consolidate the operations of different and poorly coordinated transfer programmes.

  18. Zimbabwe. Report to the Government. Actuarial study on the National Pension Scheme

    01 January 2012

    ILO/TF/Zimbabwe/R.9

  19. The Social Protection Floor Initiative (fact sheet 2012)

    01 January 2012

    This updated flyer, available in several languages, is designed as a promotional tool for a broad public, to get the Social Protection Floor widely known.

2011

  1. Social security for all

    01 December 2011

    According to the ILO’s “World Social Security Report 2010/11”, only 20 per cent of the world’s working-age population has access to comprehensive social security systems.