Publications

The ILO publishes a wide range of books, reports, working papers, training manuals, CD-ROMs, videos and flash movies, relevant to China and Mongolia. Some of these can be downloaded directly. Others can be requested from the ILO Library in Beijing.

2022

  1. International practices in employment injury insurance for workers in digital platform employment

    21 January 2022

    This publication focuses on the experiences of countries that have adopted or are considering adopting employment injury insurance (EII) systems for workers in local digital platform employment. It provides an up-to-date review of the general principles of EII and how these principles can be adapted to enable protection of platform workers in specific country contexts.

2021

  1. Extending social health protection: Accelerating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Asia and the Pacific

    07 December 2021

    This regional report documents and analyses country experiences and lessons on the extension of social health protection coverage in the Asia and the Pacific region. It provides a detailed account of progress made, challenges encountered and remaining coverage gaps, and explores their root causes.

  2. Social insurance for herders

    23 September 2021

    A handbook for herders contains comprehensive information about social protection. The handbook is available only in Mongolian.

  3. ILO/China Project on Strengthening Skills Development in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar through South-South and Triangular cooperation (SSTC): Project Fact sheet

    01 April 2021

  4. Newsletter for “Improving China’s institutional capacity towards universal social protection” Project, December 2020, Issue 2

    18 March 2021

  5. Publication collection

    23 February 2021

    This webpage presents a collection of ILO publications produced by Improving China’s Institutional Capacity towards Universal Social Protection Project.

  6. Access to social protection for platform and other non‐standard workers: A literature review

    23 February 2021

    Working paper of Access to social protection for platform and other non‐standard workers: A literature review is accessible at: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2021/wp2021-002.pdf . Annex-Table overview of articles can be downloaded above.

2020

  1. Frequently asked questions on social protection for workers in the informal economy

    16 November 2020

  2. ILO/China Project on Strengthening Skills Development in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar through South-South and Triangular cooperation (SSTC): Project Fact sheet - In Lao

    28 September 2020

  3. Research brief 1: Beyond the goal of eradicating absolute poverty in China: Relative poverty indicators and social security policies

    31 July 2020

2019

  1. Improving social protection for internal migrant workers in China

    12 December 2019

    The report further argues that the social security coordination mechanism used among EU Member States could be a useful reference for China. It suggests to: 1) enhance the centralized management of social security funds at the national level; 2) eliminate household registration restrictions to allow migrant workers to register in the social security schemes for urban and rural residents at the place of employment; 3) upgrade the social security information system; and, 4) improve the efficiency of the transfer of social security records and benefits between provinces.

  2. Improving the social protection of workers migrating between China and the EU countries

    12 December 2019

    With fast growing international trade and exchanges, international migration between China and EU countries has increased greatly in recent decades. Past experiences in a number of countries have shown that the conclusion of bilateral social security agreements (SSAs) is an effective way of improving the social protection of migrant workers.

  3. Global social security and economic development: Retrospect and prospect

    09 October 2019

    This Working Paper is the result of a joint research project between the China Association of Social Security, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).

2017

  1. Fact sheet (Dec 2016): The social protection floor for Mongolia

    14 February 2017

    The updated edition of the SPF fact sheet presents a national social protection floor for Mongolia as agreed through the Assessment Based National Dialogue (ABND) conducted in 2013-14. It also summarizes the process of ABND in Mongolia and shares results of an updated cost estimate of the social protection floor for Mongolia in the 2016 economic context.

2016

  1. Maternity cash benefits for workers in the informal economy

    14 December 2016

    The brief shares successful country experiences in extending maternity protection to workers in the informal economy including universal maternity coverage of Mongolia. It also highlights the ILO standards on maternity benefits for workers in the informal economy.

  2. Mongolia policy brief: Ratifying the ILO Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No.102)

    15 November 2016

    This policy brief provides information on the ILO Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No.102) and possibility and advantages of Mongolia’s ratification.

  3. Financing social protection through taxation of natural resources

    15 November 2016

    This brief makes a case of Mongolia for successful experience of directing natural resource revenues to social protection programmes.

  4. Universal old-age pensions in Mongolia

    15 November 2016

    This universal social protection brief presents Mongolia's programmes for old-age pension.

  5. The Universal Child Money Programme in Mongolia

    15 November 2016

    This universal social protection brief presents Mongolia's universal programme on child benefits: Its description, evolution, main impacts and future perspectives.

  6. Social Protection for All

    13 October 2016

    The ILO intends to provide technical support to the constituents for their efforts in delivering the tasks of social security reform as outlined in China's 13th 5-year plan.