Preface -- Foreword -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- A missing link in a fair and inclusive globalization -- The social protection floor is necessary -- Feasible -- Effective -- The structure of this report -- 1. The social protection floor - A policy coherence approach -- The concept -- Social protection floors in practice -- International recognition -- 2. The global social challenge -- Pervasive poverty and income inequality -- Social security is still a privilege -- Lack of essential health services -- Inadequate access to water, sanitation and housing -- Food insecurity and nutritional deficits -- Demographic challenges -- Fragile and conflict-affected countries -- 3. The case for the socialprotection floor -- Realizing human rights and social justice -- An effective tool for combating poverty and inequality -- Accelerating progress towards achievingthe MDGs and beyond -- Affordable even in low-income countries -- Ensuring adequate opportunities for decent work -- Helping to address the social and economic impactof crises and global economic imbalances -- A tool for gender empowerment -- Enhancing social cohesion -- 4. Implementing the socialprotection floor -- The picture at present -- Fiscal space and financial sustainability -- Committing donors and promoting innovative financing -- International coherence and coordination -- Pathways to economic inclusion -- Scale and beneficiary selection -- Institutional arrangements -- Monitoring and evaluation -- New technologies can assist the extensionof social protection coverage -- 5. Recommendations -- Principles for the implementationof nationally defined social protection floors -- Monitoring progress -- Policy coherence and coordinationamong international organizations -- Linking to the Millennium Development Goalsand beyond.

International standard-setting mechanisms -- International development cooperationand support to low-income countries -- Annex -- The Social Protection Floor Advisory Group:Background and composition -- Bibliography -- Figures -- Figure 1. Evolution of health protection coverage as a percentageof total population, selected countries -- Figure 2. The social protection floor: Integrated social policies to protectand empower people across the life cycle -- Figure 3. The floor can stimulate emergence of a virtuous circle -- Figure 4. Global income distribution by population quintiles,1990-2007 or latest available year -- Figure 5. Old-age pension beneficiaries as a percentage of the populationabove retirement age, latest available year -- Figure 6. Unemployment: Effective coverage worldwide -- Figure 7. Life expectancy at birth, 2009 -- Figure 8. European Union: Impact of social transfers (including and excludingpensions) on the at-risk-of-poverty rate for the total population(percentage reduction), 2007 -- Figure 9. Summary of impact assessments of existing social transfer schemesin 30 countries -- Figure 10. Simulated costs for developing countries of universalsocial pensions designed to keep older persons outof extreme poverty, 2005 and 2050 -- Figure 11. Size of the social protection component of stimulus packages -- Boxes -- Box 1 The extent of the global social challenge -- Box 2 Implementing social protection in fragile contexts:Haiti and Liberia -- Box 3 The right to social security and social protectionin international instruments -- Box 4 Accelerating the MDGs through the social protection floor. Explicitlinkages and ways in which social protection accelerates MDGs -- Box 5 Positive effects of existing social transferson productive activity -- Box 6 A response to the crisis: Brazil's extension of benefitsunder the Bolsa Família programme.

Box 7 Impact of social protection programmes in Indonesia -- Box 8 Gender-positive effects of social transfers -- Box 9 Paving a social protection floor in Mexico -- Box 10 Innovative sources of financing applied to social protection -- Box 11 Integrating social insurance and social assistance -- Box 12 Chile: Network for basic income securityand preferred access to essential services -- Box 13 Monitoring and evaluation in sub-Saharan Africa -- Tables -- Table 1. Gini index by region, 1990, 2000 and 2008 or latest available year -- Table 2. Estimated annual cost of a universal old-age pension as a percentageof GDP, selected low- and middle- income countries, 2010 -- Table 3. Annual programme expenditure cost estimates of child benefit and socialpension options, simulations for selected West African countries -- Table 4. Fiscal space for social protection, policy options by country -- Table 5. Cash transfer projects and programmes with electronic delivery mechanisms.