Overcoming Extreme Poverty by Social Protection Floors - Approaches to Closing the Right to Social Security Gap

Law and Development Review

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 237-273

  Kaltenborn, Markus ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; right to social security; social protection floor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031328121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19433867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ldr-2017-0014     Document Type: Review

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