Social ProtectionFloor Index
Monitoring National Social Protection Policy Implementation
Discussion Paper
A Social Protection Floor Index:
Monitoring National Social Protection Policy Implementation
Mira Bierbaum, Annalena Oppel, Sander Tromp, Michael Cichon
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Maastricht Graduate School of Governance / UNU-MERIT
1 The paper is the result of a team effort. The authors are listed alphabetically, thus the sequence of names does not reflect the value or size of the individual contributions to the paper. The authors would like to express their deep gratitude to Michael Cichon who set up this project on a Social Protection Floor Index and without whom this paper would not have been possible. They are also grateful for very helpful comments and suggestions by Sylvia Beales (HelpAge International), Richard Bluhm (Leibniz University Hannover), Barbara Caracciolo (SOLIDAR), Daniel Horn (HelpAge International), Charles Knox-Vydmanov (HelpAge International), Cäcilie Schildberg (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), Vishal Dave, and participants of the Roundtable Discussion on Social Protection Floors and the Transition to Justice at the International Week of Justice of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 21–23 April 2015 in Berlin.
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1. From the Social Protection Floor Concept to a Social Protection Floor Index .......
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2. Methodology and Data ...........................................................................................
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2.1 Index Criteria ........................................................................................................
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2.2 Measuring Shortfalls in Income Security .................................................................
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2.3 Measuring Shortfalls in Health Security ...............................................................
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2.4 Aggregation and Interpretation ..........................................................................
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3. Results of the SPFI in 2012 ....................................................................................
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4. Limitations and Strengths of the SPFI ..................................................................
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5. Conclusion ............................................................................................................
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Reference List ...........................................................................................................
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Annex: Results ..........................................................................................................
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Table A.1:
SPFI country ranking based minimum income criterion of $1.90 a day in 2011 PPP, 2012.....................................................................
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Table A.2:
SPFI country ranking based minimum income criterion of $3.10 a day in 2011 PPP, 2012.....................................................................
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Table A.3:
SPFI country ranking based on relative minimum income criterion and income floor, 2012 .........................................................
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Data Description .......................................................................................................
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