Last year, UNICEF supported the Government of Turkmenistan to undertake the assessment of the national social protection system to identify systemic gaps and opportunities for its further strengthening.
In 2010, the Lugo government started a social protection system designed to alleviate extreme poverty still further with public policies mainly aimed at the poorest areas.
A strong social protection system can assist and compensate poor consumers and producers once the full costs of agricultural production are internalised.
For us, a social protection system is not just a government cash transfer scheme, benefits for those who are unemployed, or access to healthcare or schools.
All governments since Margaret Thatcher's have promoted flexible labour markets as the right response to globalisation, without radically altering the social protection system in order to cushion workers against the inevitable insecurities that arise.
A multi-tier social protection system must be based on a modest basic income, so as to enable the precariat to build lives involving a balance of different types of work, not just labour in jobs.
Sickness benefits are covered by the social protection system (Spasova et al. 2016).
A weak labour market and an inadequate social protection system characterise this landscape.
The paper makes some recommendations for the improvement of the social protection system in Singapore.
For instance, any discontinuity in employment or breakup of the family will threaten this social protection system.
In Tanzania, the SDG Fund has partnered with the World Bank to construct a social protection system to better address some of the most difficult challenges facing the country.
