1. Social Protection and Economic
Development
Iene Muliati
International Policy Dialogue on Social Protection
Seoul, 2 November 2012

2. Social Protection as Investment in Growth
 Social justice and human rights
 Basic life necessities
 Enhance dignity
 Caring, just and prosperous society
 Growth with equity
 Integrate economic growth and poverty reduction master plans
 Ensure poor participate equally in economic growth
 Facilitate economic transition
 Protect those who lose jobs due to economic transition
 Maintain the peace and political support for transition
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3. Social Protection as Investment in Growth
 Empower the poor
 Greater equality of opportunity for all
 Improve access to education, health, infrastructure, public services
 Improve access to financial services and credit
 Enhance employment opportunities
 Mobilize savings of the poor for investment
 Create more flexible labor force
 Creating quality jobs
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4. Social Protection Tools
 Social assistance programs
 Protect the poor and vulnerable
 Prevent irreversible loss of human capital – links to education and
health outcomes
 Rapid response to crises
 Social insurance
 Basic insurance coverage for workers against shocks
 Use pooling power of the central government
 Mobilize additional financial resources for health and retirement
 Increases labor mobility
 Labor market interventions
 Public works programs (work-fare)
 Skill building and job search
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5. Social Protection Challenges
 Targeting
 Efficient administration
 ID numbers
 Contribution collection
 Historical records
 Maximizing use of technology
 Changing demographics
 Aging society
 Increasing productivity to offset loss of demographic dividend
 Government risk management capacity
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