BANGKOK — Social protection systems are essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, social protection is insufficient across Asia and the Pacific, and the region is at risk from megatrends: climate change, demographic shifts and digitalization.
Tens of millions of people have been pushed into extreme poverty since the coronavirus pandemic, reversing past gains, and many millions more live precariously just above the poverty line.'Protecting our future today: Social Protection in Asia and the Pacific,' a report by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific , outlines challenges in the region and offers an approach to solving them through foresight and urgent action.
Available country data indicate that between 2016 and 2022, coverage increased across the life cycle, for children, persons with disabilities, people of working age and those in old age, in line with the concept of a social protection 'floor.'Too many remain unprotected — 45 percent of people in Asia and the Pacific have no coverage at all. Systems are often fragmented and under-resourced. Poverty-targeted programs miss people and contributory schemes remain thin.
Change And Resilience: Social Protection In The Age Of Megatrends
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