What conclusions can be drawn from the economic crisis with regard to social security?
The economic crisis has made it clear that the United Nations and other international bodies should be formulating strategies for the global promotion of social security as a core element of policies to reduce poverty and of wider development policies to enable countries to grow with equity. There is a powerful case for the rapid expansion of universal social security in low-income countries and for the introduction of a basic social protection floor in all countries, as promoted in the Global Jobs Pact adopted by the ILO’s annual International Labour Conference in June 2009. What are the book’s recommendations? Building decent societies discusses the enormous and insufficiently exploited potential in low-income countries for expanding universal social security. New international strategies must recognize that economic and social development are inextricably intertwined across countries and that appropriate social security policies have to be designed to help to reduce poverty effectiv
