Health Equity: 11/10/11

Thursday, November 10, 2011

[EQ] Social protection floors for social justice and a fair globalization -ILO

Social protection floors for social justice and a fair globalization

International Labour Office Geneva

ISBN 978-92-2-124493-6 (print) ISBN 978-92-2-124494-3 (Web) ISSN 0074-6681 – 2011

Available online PDF [87p.] at: http://bit.ly/uy1s9S

“……This report is divided into three chapters. Chapter I outlines the main challenges and opportunities for the extension of social security. In order to do so it examines the framework of existing ILO social security standards against the gaps in social security coverage observed in ILO member States (inter alia by the World Social Security Report 2010/11) and presents the case for a new Recommendation to fill the protection gaps that are left by existing standards; hence responding to the needs of the global population.
Chapter II examines national law and practice in the provision of basic income guarantees and essential health care in the context of the related international legal and conceptual framework. Chapter III contains the questionnaire and briefly introduces its purpose. …”

Content

Introduction

Chapter 1. The social protection floor:
A concept to ensure basic social security for all – Overview of challenges and opportunities

The global protection gap

Social security Conventions: A reference for the development of social security systems
Chapter 2. Law and practice in the provision of basic guarantees for income security and essential health care

2.1. Population coverage

2.2. The range of benefits provided with respect to the social protection floor guarantees

2.3. The level of benefits provided

2.4. The legal nature of entitlements

2.5. Delivery mechanisms and organization

2.6. Coherence with other policy objectives

2.7. Financing arrangements

2.8. Governance

2.9. Extension processes

2.10. Interim conclusion: Identification of elements of a Recommendation on social protection floors

Questionnaire

Appendices

I. Resolution concerning the recurrent discussion on social protection (social security)

II. Conclusions concerning the recurrent discussion on social protection (social security)

III. Elements of a possible Recommendation on social protection floors

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[EQ] Putting Growth In Its Place - It has to be but a means to development not an end in itself

Putting Growth In Its Place

It has to be but a means to development, not an end in itself

Jean Dreze is Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Allahabad University.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is Lamont University professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University.

Indian magazine Outlook – November 2011

Website: http://bit.ly/snRscj

“…………..Is India doing marvellously well, or is it failing terribly? Depending on whom you speak to, you could pick up either of those answers with some frequency. One story, very popular among a minority but a large enough group—of Indians who are doing very well (and among the media that cater largely to them)—runs something like this. “After decades of mediocrity and stagnation under ‘Nehruvian socialism’, the Indian economy achieved a spectacular take-off during the last two decades.

This take-off, which led to unprecedented improvements in income per head, was driven largely by market initiatives. It involves a significant increase in inequality, but this is a common phenomenon in periods of rapid growth. With enough time, the benefits of fast economic growth will surely reach even the poorest people, and we are firmly on the way to that.” Despite the conceptual confusion involved in bestowing the term ‘socialism’ to a collectivity of grossly statist policies of ‘Licence raj’ and neglect of the state’s responsibilities for school education and healthcare, the story just told has much plausibility, within its confined domain…..”

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