Social protection – Effective social protection
and other labour market policies can help mitigate the adjustment costs of structural change
and address informality, especially for vulnerable
groups. The extension of social protection should
include building nationally defined social protection floors, along with extending the coverage
and scope of social security systems to include
migrant workers and other vulnerable groups. A
sound framework for this purpose is the ASEAN
Declaration on Strengthening Social Protection,
adopted in October 2013.