Resource
The Social Protection Floor. Conceptual development and application to the Americas
Summary
Points:
- “Everyone, as a member of society, has a right to Social Security”
- Everybody needs Social Security: People, States, economy
- Social risks within the life cycle
- Social Security ILO principles (2001)
- The resulting double Social Security expansion strategy
- The double strategy of the Campaign to Extend Coverage to All
- Conceptual evolution within ILO
- What is the Social Protection Floor?
- The 4 fundamental SPF guarantees
- Integration of Floor + social/supplem. insurance
- Examples of advances on the 4 guarantees
- Social Security branches covered (2008-09)
- Effective pension coverage (around 2005)
- Coverage of unemployed workers