ESCAP Launches Report on Combating Inequality through Social Protection

On 31 December, ESCAP released Time for Equality: The role of social protection in reducing inequalities in Asia and the Pacific, a groundbreaking report which examines the links between inequality and social protection.

The report, released the day before the Sustainable Development Goals came into effect, finds that rights-based social protection can contribute to the reduction of inequality, thereby integrating the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental.

The publication examines inequalities faced by children, persons of working age, older persons and in access to healthcare as well as provides examples of good practices, successful social protection programmes, and provides recommendations for strengthening social protection systems.

Read or download the report here.

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