
We call on the World Bank, IMF, and international donors, including OECD countries, to stop promoting and funding narrowly means-tested programs. Instead, they should support the government in expanding universal programs like the disability entitlement and implementing other universal schemes such as a social pension and a universal child benefit. The government should continue its progress towards universality, translate commitments into action, increase investments in social security through progressive domestic revenue generation, and promptly establish a mechanism to address complaints related to social security. Without these reforms, Lebanon’s poverty and human rights crisis will only worsen.
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