Summary

This volume of Prayas includes essays from international policy scholars who have contributed to the question on social floors:

• Introduction: Social protection reforms. The essential scaffolding (Smita Srinivas)
• Preparing for the 200 million (Armando Barrientos)
• Occupational health and safety for Informal Workers (Frances Lund)
• Constructing a credible pension system for India ( Mukul G. Asher)
• International migration and the Social Protection Floor (Wouter Van Ginneken)
• A gender perspective on Social Protection (Naila Kabeer)
• Lessons learnt from Social Security reforms in Latin America (Carmelo Mesa Lago)
• The role of ESIC in Universal Health Care (RKA Subramanya)