Previous Year Question
World Social Protection Report is published by—
World Bank
International Labour Organization
World Economic Forum
World Health Organization
Correct Answer: B
Detailed Solution
The World Social Protection Report is one of the major flagship reports of the ILO. It assesses the global status of social protection systems, their coverage, benefits and public expenditure.
Social protection aims to provide people with security against different risks during the life cycle, such as—
unemployment, sickness, maternity, disability, employment injury and old age.
The report provides a comparative assessment of access to social protection across countries and examines progress towards universal social protection.
The World Social Protection Report 2020–22, relevant around the period of the question, was also published by the ILO. It placed particular emphasis on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for universal social protection.
Current Status
The ILO published the latest World Social Protection Report 2024–26 on 12 September 2024.
According to the report, for the first time 52.4% of the world's population is covered by at least one social protection cash benefit, while approximately 3.8 billion people remain entirely unprotected by any social protection benefit.
The latest report particularly focuses on universal social protection for climate action and a just transition.