Books and reports
February 2021
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World Employment and Social Outlook 2021
The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work
23 February 2021
This ILO flagship report explores how the contemporary platform economy is transforming the way work is organized, and analyses the impact of digital labour platforms on enterprises, workers and society as a whole.
June 2014
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Publication
World Social Protection Report 2014-15: Building economic recovery, inclusive development and social justice
03 June 2014
This report presents the latest social security trends and provides information on social protection systems, coverage, benefits and expenditures in more than 190 countries.
June 2011
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Publication
The Global Crisis. Causes, responses and challenges
13 June 2011
This important collection of essays brings together the main findings of ILO research since the start of the global financial and economic crisis in 2008. With contributions from diverse research disciplines, the volume provides new perspectives on employment and income-led growth and the role of regulation, and makes policy recommendations for the future.
November 2010
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World Social Security Report 2010/11. Providing coverage in times of crisis and beyond
16 November 2010
This is the first in a new series of biennial reports that aim to map social security coverage globally, to presenting various methods and approaches for assessing coverage, and to identifying gaps in coverage. Backed by much comparative statistical data, this first report takes a comprehensive look at how countries are investing in social security, how they are financing it, and how effective their approaches are. The report examines the ways selected international organizations (the EU, OECD and ADB) monitor social protection and the correlation of social security coverage and the ILO Decent Work Indicators. The report's final section features a typology of national approaches to social security, with a focus on countries' responses to the economic crisis of 2008 -- and the lessons to be learned, especially concerning the short- and long-term management of pension schemes.
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Extending Social Security to All
16 November 2010
This book outlines basic concepts such as the social protection floor and the social security staircase, analyses the affordability of various approaches, and examines the results of practices around the world, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
January 2010
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Zanzibar. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget
14 January 2010
Zanzibar's lack of social protection has left it vulnerable during the current financial crisis and economic downturn, and basic social services are urgently required. The ILO-DFID funded project sets out the current situation of existing social transfers within Zanzibar's social protection system.
July 2009
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110 Sw.frs.; US$105; UK£65; €75
Building decent societies. Rethinking the role of social security in development
31 July 2009
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
May 2009
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Tackling the global jobs crisis. Recovery through decent work policies
15 May 2009
This report proposes the initial elements of a Global Jobs Pact based on the policy orientations provided by the Governing Body in November 2008 and March 2009 and by recent regional and sectoral tripartite ILO meetings on responses to the crisis. It also reflects the G20 London Jobs Conference and the meeting of the G8+6 Labour and Employment Ministers in Rome (March 2009), which welcomed with interest the International Labour Conference discussion on a Global Jobs Pact.
February 2009
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Tanzania Mainland. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget
18 February 2009
This report takes into account demographic and macroeconomic information specific to mainland Tanzania and makes projections from a baseline year based on the two types of social protection schemes - contributory and non-contributory.
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Zambia. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget
12 February 2009
This report, a review of the output of the first year's work of the project, examines the objective of extending social protection coverage in the country.