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The Revised Social Protection Index

Methodology and Handbook

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Place of Publish: Manila

Year: 2011

Page Numbers: 59

Acc. No: 764-S

Category: Soft Documents

Languages: English

ISBN: ISBN 978-92-9092-497-5

In 2010, ADB (Asia Development Bank) adopted a revised SPI (Social Protection Index). Significantly, the index can be disaggregated or decomposed in different ways, such as by depth and breadth of coverage; by category, including social insurance, social assistance, and labor market; by poor and non-poor beneficiaries; and by gender. This disaggregation can be combined in various ways to provide a rich analysis of social protection at the country and regional levels. The revised SPI was not explicitly designed for ranking the relative performance of countries, although it is internationally comparable. Rather, it was designed for practical use to assess the nature of social protection programs in countries and to identify these programs