Policies for Social Inclusion and Equity (Cluster C) Covers a wide range of policy areas, such as gender equality, equity of public resource use, human development, social protection, and environmental sustainability. While more countries saw increases than decreases in their cluster average, this trend is not shared among the individual criteria. Specifically, nine countries’ averages improved enough to register at the 0.1-point level, compared to five countries that saw their averages decrease. In cluster C, three criteria experienced more upgrades than downgrades, while two criteria saw the reverse trend for this cluster. Overall, the regional average score remained unchanged at 3.3, although the averages for gender equality, social protection, and labor increased at the 0.1-point level (growing to 3.3 and 3.1, respectively).
