The implementation of the right to social protection through the adoption of social protection floors 2014, para. 39
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Finally, much has been made in the context of the Covenant of the importance of establishing benchmarks against which governmental performance can be evaluated. As the United Nations Development Group has observed, the immediate realization of a social protection floor is not a realistic policy goal for most countries in the region. but progress can be achieved through "setting a benchmark for the benefit levels. The benchmark may be taken as the national poverty line for tax-financed, universal schemes and relative benchmarks as laid out in the ILO's social security Conventions."
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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights