Continuing the debate: a response to the ILO’s defence of their social security financing estimates 

In March, Stephen Kidd, Diloá Athias and Olivia Claxton wrote a critique of the ILO’s estimates of the universal social security financing gaps. The ILO responded, defending their results. You can find their response here.

Stephen and Diloá have provided a further response to the ILO and maintain that the ILO’s estimate of a cost of 19.8 per cent of cumulative GDP to achieve universal social security across low-income countries is too high. Further, they argue that the ILO’s calculation that it would cost 1.3 per cent to bridge the social security coverage gap across all low- and middle-income countries is an underestimate.