Working papers

• Investing more in universal social protection. Filling the financing gap through domestic resource mobilization and international support and coordination
• Investing better in universal social protection. Applying international social security standards in social protection policy and financing
• Social policy advice to countries from the International Monetary Fund during the COVID-19 crisis: Continuity and change
• Financing gaps in social protection. Global estimates and strategies for developing countries in light of the COVID-19 crisis and beyond
• Measuring financing gaps in social protection for achieving SDG target 1.3. Global estimates and strategies for developing countries
• La reversión de la privatización de las pensiones: Reconstruyendo los sistemas públicos de pensiones en los países de Europa Oriental y América Latina (2000-2018)
• Second-pillar pension re-reforms in Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Macedonia, Romania, and Slovakia. Benefit payouts amidst continuing retrenchment
• The reversal of pension privatization in Venezuela
• Repeal of the privatization of the pension system in Nicaragua
• The reversal of pension privatization in Ecuador
• Reversing pension privatization. The case of Polish pension reform and re-reforms
• Reversing Pension Privatization in Kazakhstan
• Reversing privatization and re-nationalizing pensions in Hungary
• Reversing Pension Privatization in Bolivia
• Pension privatization and reversal of pension reforms in Argentina
• Reversing pension privatization. Rebuilding public pension systems in Eastern European and Latin American countries (2000-18)
• From principles to practice: A method for identifying income sufficiency when applying International Legal Standards
• Is biometric technology in social protection programmes illegal or arbitrary? An analysis of privacy and data protection
• Building an adequate U.S. labor and social protection system for the 21st century
• Fiscal space for social protection and the SDGs. Options to expand social investments in 187 countries
• Universal Social Protection Floors: Costing Estimates and Affordability in 57 Lower Income Countries
• Espace budgétaire pour la protection sociale et les ODD : Possibilités d'extension des investissements sociaux dans 187 pays
• Espacio fiscal para la protección social y los ODS. Alternativas para ampliar la inversión social en 187 países
• Migrant access to social protection under Bilateral Labour Agreements. A review of 120 countries and nine bilateral arrangements
• Exclusion by design. An assessment of the effectiveness of the proxy means test poverty targeting mechanism
• Sistemas de protección social en América Latina: una evaluación
• Health workforce: A global supply chain approach. New data on the employment effects of health economies in 185 countries
• Social protection systems in Latin America. An assessment
• Protecting people and the environment: Lessons learnt from Brazil's Bolsa Verde, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, South Africa and 56 other experiences
• National experiences in building social protection floors. India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
• Cash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and empowerment of women in South Africa
• Realising the right to social security and the right to food
• The decade of adjustment. A review of austerity trends 2010-2020 in 187 countries
• Long-term care protection for older persons. A review of coverage deficits in 46 countries
• Income Inequalities in Perspective
• Global evidence on inequities in rural health protection. New data on rural deficits in health coverage for 174 countries
• Can productivity in SMEs be increased by investing in workers' health?
• Reversing pension privatization. The experience of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Hungary
• Costing essential health-care packages based on the framework of national floors of social protection.
• Coordination institutionnelle et socles de protection sociale. Expériences en Amérique latine (Argentine, Brésil, Chili, Mexique, Uruguay)
• Espace budgétaire et extension de la protection sociale: expériences de pays en développement
• Multinational enterprises' engagement in extending social security: Examples of practices and challenges
• Innovations in extending social insurance coverage to independent workers.
• Towards a Mozambican Social Protection Floor
• Mapping existing international social protection statistics and indicators that would contribute to the monitoring of social protection extension through social protection floors
• Social protection floors and gender equality. A brief overview
• The extension of social security and the social responsibility of multinational enterprises: An exploratory study
• Socially responsible investment, decent work and pension funds. Concepts and international experiences
• Fiscal space and the extension of social protection. Lessons learnt from developing countries
• Social security and food security - Successful policy experiences in Brazil
• Analysis of the Viet Nam National Social Protection Strategy (2011-2020) in the context of social protection floors objectives. A rapid assessment.
• Can the European elderly afford the financial burden of health and long-term care? Assessing impacts and policy implications
• Evidence on gender inequities in social health protection. The case of women living in rural areas
• Paid sick leave: Incidence, patterns and expenditure in times of crisis