The Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), organized an expert group meeting on “Addressing inequalities and challenges to social inclusion through fiscal, wage and social protection policies” at UN Headquarters in New York from 25 to 27 June 2018. The meeting was convened in preparation for the fifty-seventh session of the Commission (CSocD57) to be held in February 2019, which will produce a negotiated policy outcome (a resolution) on the priority theme.
The Commission for Social Development continues to prioritize and give prominence to the follow-up to and review of the World Summit for Social Development. Furthermore, the Commission will make a vital contribution to the follow-up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by supporting the thematic reviews of the high-level political forum on sustainable development (HLPF) on progress on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, including cross-cutting issues.
The expert group meeting made specific policy recommendations on effective fiscal, wage and social protection policies to address inequalities and challenges to social inclusion in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The meeting was built on the outcomes of the 72nd session of the General Assembly as well as the 55th and 56th sessions of the Commission for Social Development that have discussed strategies to reduce inequalities as a means to eradicate poverty. The meeting focused on policies and strategies that have proven to be successful in reducing inequality, both income and non-income, and the barriers to social inclusion, at the global, regional and national levels.
The meeting also explored the inter-linkages among inequalities, poverty, social exclusion, economic growth, fiscal, economic and social policies, to achieve sustainable development for all. The meeting will also review systemic barriers that perpetuate existing inequalities and exclusion, especially for vulnerable groups and individuals, within the context of the 2030 Agenda.
Papers
- The Social Assistance Reform in China: Towards a Fair and Inclusive Social Safety Net by Lixiong Yang
- Reducing inequalities and promoting social inclusion through social protection – Promising approaches at local, national, regional and global levels by Timo Voipio
- Addressing Inequalities and Challenges to Social Inclusion through Productive Inclusion Policies: Brazil’s Experience by Vinícius Botelho
- Addressing Inequalities and Challenges to Social Inclusion through Fiscal Policy by Anis (Anisuzzaman) Chowdhury
- Empirical evidence on long-term global trends in income inequality by Joe Hasell
- Kyrgyzstan’s Social Protection Measures and Programmes by Gulmira Kazakunova
- Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution, and Poverty Reduction in Low- and Middle-Income Countries by Nora Lustig
- Labor market institutions and the distribution of wages in Latin America. The role of Minimum Wage by Roxana Maurizio
- When progressive fiscal policies do not reduce health inequalities: An examination of child malnutrition in South Africa by Coretta M. P. Jonah, Winnie C. Sambu, Julian D. May
- How Zambia’s Social Protection Services and Programmes Helped Mitigate Inequality and Reduce Poverty by Stanfield Michelo
- Tax design for inclusive growth in OECD countries by Sarah Perret
- Challenges of Taxation and Redistribution in Globalizing Economies by Nita Rudra and Ida Bastiaens
- Labour market structure and wages: policies to reduce inequality in OECD countries by Céline Thévenot
- The Impact of Infrastructure Provisioning on Inequality by Sumedha Bajar
Presentations
- Reducing inequalities and promoting social inclusion through social protection – Promising approaches at local, national, regional and global levels by Timo Voipio
- Fiscal Policy and Redistribution: Evidence from low and middle income countries CEQ Assessments by Nora Lustig
- Addressing Inequalities and Challenges to Social Inclusion through Fiscal Policy by Anis (Anisuzzaman) Chowdhury
- Debates on public spending in the Financing for Development process by Peter Chowla
- Designing Tax Policies to Promote More Inclusive Growth by Sarah Perret
- Infrastructure and Inequality: Does Transition Matter? by Sumedha Bajar
- When progressive fiscal policies do not reduce health inequalities: An examination of child malnutrition in South Africa by Coretta Jonah, Winnie Sambu & Julian May
- Labour market structure and wages by Céline Thévenot
- Minimum wages and inequality: the effects of artifcial intelligence and technological upgrading by Zsofia L. Barany
- Labor market institutions and the distribution of wages in Latin America. The role of Minimum Wage by Roxana Maurizio
- Wage policy and the distribution of income by Patrick Belser
- Combating Child Poverty and Deprivation: The Promise of a Universal Child Grant by Alexandra Yuster
- Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean by Simone Cecchini
- Social Protection at the Local Level by Daniel Perell
- Social protection: coverage, affordability, financing options by Valerie Schmitt
- The Social Assistance Reform in China: Towards a Fair and Inclusive Social Safety Net by Yang Lixiong
- Addressing Inequalities and Challenges to Social Inclusion through Productive Inclusion Policies: Brazil’s Experience by Vinícius Botelho
- Economic and Productive Impacts of Unconditional Cash Transfers in Africa by Alejandro Grinspun
- Social Protection Mitigating Inequality and Reduce Poverty by Stanfield Michelo
- Trends in within-country income and non income inequality during the last 30 years by Giovanni Andrea Cornia
- Economic and Social Policies to Reduce Income Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa by Ayodele Odusola
- Addressing social inequalities in Arab States: Competing narratives and role of fiscal policies by Khalid Abu Ismail and Niranjan Sarangi
- Inequality of opportunity in Asia and the Pacific by Thérèse Björk
- Empirical evidence on long-term global trends in income inequality by Joe Hasell
- Challenges to Taxation and Redistribution in a Globalizing Economy by Nita Rudra
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