{"id":32017,"date":"2018-10-29T12:14:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32017"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:14:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:44:33","slug":"still-a-raw-deal-for-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/still-a-raw-deal-for-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Still a raw deal for many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/still-a-raw-deal-for-many\/article22444629.ece\"><strong>Still a raw deal for many <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>World Social Protection Report 2017-19<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Report is released by<\/u><\/strong>: International Labour Organization<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major findings of the report<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No security<\/strong>: A vast majority of people (4 billion) live without any safeguard against the normal contingencies of life, according to the study<\/li>\n<li><strong>Access to only on social protection benefit<\/strong>: Less than half (45.2%) have guaranteed access to only one social protection benefit in the face of a whole gamut of risks such as ill health, unemployment, occupational injuries, disability, and old age<\/li>\n<li><strong>Universal health, a mere slogan<\/strong>: More than half the population in rural areas are not covered by universal health programmes, as compared to less than a quarter in urban locations. The goal of comprehensive coverage evidently remains a mere slogan in several parts of the world<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pension amount not enough<\/strong>: The expansion of old-age pensions to include 68% of people in the retirement age is a move in the right direction. However, the levels of support are not adequate enough even to lift people out of poverty. A trend away from the privatisation of pension protection in Poland, Argentina, Hungary, among others, is perhaps a moment for other countries to rethink<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How much of the population enjoys comprehensive social protection?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About 29% of the population enjoy comprehensive social protection<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meagre increase<\/strong>: There has been a 2% increase in coverage in the last two years \u2014 a sign that the commitment is woefully inadequate given the magnitude of the challenge\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reason<\/strong>: fiscal austerity measures<\/li>\n<li><strong>Solution<\/strong>: While the Targets under the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals lay out the framework for concerted efforts in this respect, the report itself puts forward two solutions for this problem,\n<ul>\n<li>Economic stimulus<\/li>\n<li>Productivity-enhancing growth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why the target of eliminating child labor by 2025 seems to be elusive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest report sheds some light on why the abovementioned task seems almost elusive<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly two-thirds of children are not covered by any form of social protection, meaning that their education is unlikely to rank as a priority among households<\/li>\n<li>Furthermore, 41% of mothers of newborns receive no maternity benefits. Only 27.8% of persons with severe disabilities worldwide receive appropriate support. This precludes effective interventions to alleviate the impact of different impairments on daily living.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still a raw deal for many Context World Social Protection Report 2017-19 Report is released by: International Labour Organization Major findings of the report No security: A vast majority of people (4 billion) live without any safeguard against the normal contingencies of life, according to the study Access to only on social protection benefit: Less&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/still-a-raw-deal-for-many\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still a raw deal for many<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704786140},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}