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Asia-Pacific Regional High-level Meeting on socially-inclusive strategies to extend social security coverage. New Delhi, India 19-20 May 2008
Social Security Policy Briefings. Paper 6
Summary (English)
This publication, prepared by the Social Security Department of the ILO, is the outcome of the Regional Meeting held in New Delhi. It is based on the presentations made during the High Level Round Table on the Extension of Social Protection, the panel discussion on Social Security and the Right to Work; the session on Income Security for the Elderly and not-so-Elderly and the session on Extending Social Health Protection in the Asia-Pacific Region. The report also reflects the major points of the tripartite discussions held following the presentations.
The ILO conclusions of this meeting underlined the commitment of the Office to assist countries in closing coverage gaps, in particular, in the informal economy, in the access to essential health care for all, in the adoption of social measures for children, the unemployed and the poor and income protection for the elderly and the disabled. This could be done by establishing a basic benefit package in order to guarantee baic social protection for all.
Related info
Other ILO Social Security Policy Briefings:
Paper 1. Social Health Protection. An ILO strategy towards universal access to health care
Paper 2. Setting social security standards in a global society. An analysis of present state and practice and of future options for global social security standard setting in the International Labour Organization
Paper 3. Can low-income countries afford basic social security?
Paper 4. Reunión Regional Tripartita sobre el futuro de la protección social en América Latina. Santiago, Chile, 12 al 14 de diciembre de 2007
Paper 5. Interregional Tripartite Meeting on the future of social security in Arab States. Amman, 6-8 May 2008
Paper 7. Social Security for All. Investing in social justice and economic development
Paper 8. Social Security for All. Addressing inequities in access to health care for vulnerable groups in countries of Europe and Central Asia. Geneva, 2011
Note
The three papers included in the report are also available separately. For further details about these papers, please click on the following links:
- Poverty, Economic and Social Development and the Right to Social Security within the Global Decent Work Debate (123 Kb)
- Income Security for the Elderly and not-so-elderly in the Asia-Pacific Region (182 Kb)
- Extending Social Health Protection in the Asia-Pacific Region: Progress and challenges (188 Kb)