Summary

This presentation presents:

• the four global gaps in social protection and labor:
  • Integration: fragmented and unharmonizedprograms
  • Coverage: major programs are mostly in middle-income countries
  • Weak connection to productivity: insufficient links to human capital accumulation, skills formation and labor market insertion
  • Global knowledge: inadequate data, results-focus and transmission of good practice

and

• The need for the World Bank to deepen work in four areas:
  1. Build appropriate, context-specific social protection &labor systems
  2. Expand coverage, especially in lower-income and fragile states
  3. Promotelinks to human capital, skills and labor market insertion
  4. Expand investment in results and knowledge