Overcoming Extreme Poverty by Social Protection Floors – Approaches to Closing the Right to Social Security Gap
Resources - Author: Markus Kaltenborn / Year: 2017
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development contains a very ambitious poverty reduction schedule: According to Sustainable Development Goal 1 extreme poverty shall be completely eradicated within the next 15 years (SDG 1.1), and also other forms of poverty shall be reduced within the same period at least by half...
Read MoreGlobal Social Protection: New impetus from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Resources - Author: Markus Kaltenborn / Year: 2015
The issue of social protection has undergone something of a renaissance in the development policy debate in recent years and has lately become a particular focus of interest for several international organizations, first and foremost the International Labour Organization with its Social Protection Floor Initiative. What’s more, promoting social...
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