World Social Report 2025: A New Policy Consensus to Accelerate Social Progress

The World Social Report 2025 stands as a timely reminder of the challenges that remain hanging over most of humanity worldwide. The reality of financial hardship is stark: more than 2.8 billion people survive with less than $6.85 a day, mostly engaged in informal and unsafe jobs, with no social protection to speak of. 

Inequalities cease to just persist: they are widening with climate change, very fast technological development, and poor access to opportunities. All the while, trust in institutions weakens, and digital misinformation pulls apart the social fabric.

This report, therefore, calls for forging a new policy consensus founded on equity, economic security for all, and solidarity: a practical, forward-looking program that includes:

1. Investing in people: This means making sure everyone has access to quality education, healthcare, housing, and clean energy.

- Improving access to quality education, health services, housing, and clean energy

- Addressing funding gaps

- Integrating environmental education

- Safeguarding civic space and youth participation

2. Promoting Decent Work and Strengthening Social Protection: It is essential to create jobs that offer stability and dignity. In addition, we need universal social protection systems and a clear plan to bridge their funding gaps.

- Ensuring universal access to social protection systems

- Addressing funding gaps in social protection

- Promoting decent work

- Rethinking fiscal and monetary policies

- Building shock-responsive social protection systems

- Optimizing labor market programs


3. Fostering Fairer Systems and Global Cooperation: The goal is to rebuild trust and boost global collaboration, aiming for a more just, secure, and united world.


- Building trust and enabling cooperation

- Strengthening governance

- Promoting stronger multilateral collaboration

- Developing integrated, conflict-sensitive development strategies

- Strategic partnerships within the UN system and with international financial institutions

- Reclaiming policy space for governments

- Reshaping the global economy

Link to the full report: https://social.desa.un.org/issues/world-social-report

The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

United Nations publication

ISBN 978-92-1-003555-2

eISBN 978-92-1-107377-5


Hnin Ei Lwin

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