GPW Round Up #2: Ensuring Social Protection for All

This GPW Round Up #2, Ensuring Social Protection for All, highlights the critical importance of universal social protection not only in recovering from the pandemic, but also its vital role to address pre-existing deep-seated inequalities between and within countries. It details gaps in social protection coverage and financing, especially in poor countries, and failures of the targeted, or means-tested approach, often promoted by IMF and World Bank.

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The Round Up features comments and debates by Member States and CSOs, as well as research and critiques by scholars, the ILO and the (former) UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty. It links analyses to relevant recommendations of the UN Secretary-General’s report, Our Common Agenda, recommendations that are being debated by Member States as they lay out the UN agenda for the next three years.

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Source: Global Policy Watch (GPW).