The report "Poverty, Economic and Social Development and the Right to Social Security" has commended the scheme as a programme towards facilitating significant cash transfer to the lower strata of society.
"India, among many other Asian countries having at least one significant cash transfer programme in operation, introduced a very innovative 100-day guaranteed employment scheme for rural districts that has now been rolled out to its entire target area," the report said.
The other countries that have received mention in the report for their "cash for work" programmes are Argentina, Ethiopia, Republic of Korea, Malawi and South Africa.
The report stated that it was interesting to note that all of the high-population Asian countries in the middle- and low-income categories -- India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh -- have at least one significant cash transfer programme in operation.
Besides, the report has also included neighbouring Nepal for pioneering social pensions for old age and for its current move in exploring the fiscal possibility of strengthening universal pension by bringing the retirement age down and adding a child benefit.
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The report has also said that implementing the basic social security system can make a huge contribution to pulling people out of poverty and to the achievement of the first Millennium Development Goal of United Nations.
"Economic growth alone does not automatically reduce poverty, unless it is supported by employment promotion and income redistribution mechanism," it said.
"Even as the UN had declared social security as a universal human right, it remains a dream for 80 per cent of the global population," it added.