Dear friends,
In case it escaped your attention, the World Economic Forum released its Outlook 2014 that identifies the following top priorities for global leaders to address: (1) inequality (2) jobless growth (3) lack of leadership… (full list in link), for the WEF Summit last weekend http://reports.weforum.org/outlook-global-agenda-2015
Also, if you have not yet read Oxfam's report/global campaign Even it up: Time to end extreme inequalities -- note that it calls for a universal social protection floor among its 9 global priority actions:
1. Make governments work for citizens and tackle extreme inequality
2. Promote women’s economic equality and women’s rights
3. Pay workers a living wage and close the gap with skyrocketing executive reward
4. Share the tax burden fairly to level the playing field
5. Close international tax loopholes and fill holes in tax governance
6. Achieve universal free public services by 2020
7. Change the global system for research and development (R&D) and pricing of medicines so everyone has access to appropriate and affordable medicines
8. Implement a universal social protection floor
9. Target development finance at reducing inequality and poverty, and strengthening the compact between citizens and their government
It may also be of interest Andrea Cornia's recent presentation/publication on Falling Inequality in Latin America, mostly by a mix of macroeconomic and social protection policies.
For those not familiar with the concept of social protection floor, here a recent brief http://www.social-protection.org/gimi/gess/RessourcePDF.action?ressource.ressourceId=48121
(more materials: http://www.social-protection.org)
and here a short but GREAT video on what it means in a country (Thailand, 2 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB40vKO5xSs&index=1&list=PLZEl1tot_G0CVNYQF0vAuYD7WNXCGTnSg
All the best,
Isabel Ortiz
Director Social Protection Department
International Labour Organization
4 Route des Morillons
CH-1211 Geneva 22 Switzerland
Tel. +41.22.799.6226 ortizi@ilo.org
Visit: http://www.social-protection.org/
In case it escaped your attention, the World Economic Forum released its Outlook 2014 that identifies the following top priorities for global leaders to address: (1) inequality (2) jobless growth (3) lack of leadership… (full list in link), for the WEF Summit last weekend http://reports.weforum.org/outlook-global-agenda-2015
Also, if you have not yet read Oxfam's report/global campaign Even it up: Time to end extreme inequalities -- note that it calls for a universal social protection floor among its 9 global priority actions:
1. Make governments work for citizens and tackle extreme inequality
2. Promote women’s economic equality and women’s rights
3. Pay workers a living wage and close the gap with skyrocketing executive reward
4. Share the tax burden fairly to level the playing field
5. Close international tax loopholes and fill holes in tax governance
6. Achieve universal free public services by 2020
7. Change the global system for research and development (R&D) and pricing of medicines so everyone has access to appropriate and affordable medicines
8. Implement a universal social protection floor
9. Target development finance at reducing inequality and poverty, and strengthening the compact between citizens and their government
It may also be of interest Andrea Cornia's recent presentation/publication on Falling Inequality in Latin America, mostly by a mix of macroeconomic and social protection policies.
For those not familiar with the concept of social protection floor, here a recent brief http://www.social-protection.org/gimi/gess/RessourcePDF.action?ressource.ressourceId=48121
(more materials: http://www.social-protection.org)
and here a short but GREAT video on what it means in a country (Thailand, 2 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB40vKO5xSs&index=1&list=PLZEl1tot_G0CVNYQF0vAuYD7WNXCGTnSg
All the best,
Isabel Ortiz
Director Social Protection Department
International Labour Organization
4 Route des Morillons
CH-1211 Geneva 22 Switzerland
Tel. +41.22.799.6226 ortizi@ilo.org
Visit: http://www.social-protection.org/
