Summary (English)

PowerPoint presentation. It includes:

• Overview of the costs of existing social protection transfers in different countries and their role in the development.
• Presentation of the methodology and results of the ILO studies on the costs of a hypothetical basic social protection package in selected Asian and African countries.
• Discussing the concept of affordability in the context of current and potential fiscal space, political will and international solidarity.
• Discussing the need to harmonize financial sustainability with adequacy of benefits provided in order to make any social programme viable.