Contesting Social Welfare In Southeast Asia

Author : Andrew Rosser,John Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108888363

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Contesting Social Welfare in Southeast Asia by Andrew Rosser,John Murphy Pdf

This Element argues that Southeast Asia's failure to develop stronger social protection systems has been, at its root, a matter of politics and power. It has reflected the political dominance within the region of predatory and technocratic elements, and the relative weakness of progressive elements. From the mid-1980s, democratisation, the emergence of political entrepreneurs seeking to mobilise mass electoral support, and the occurrence of severe economic and social crises generated pressure on governments within the region to strengthen their social protection systems. But while such developments shifted policy in a more progressive direction, they have been insufficient to produce far-reaching change. Rather, they have produced a layering effect. Innovations have built upon pre-existing policy and institutional arrangements without fundamentally altering these arrangements, ensuring that social protection systems continue to have strong conservative, productivist and predatory attributes.

Author : John Sydenham Furnivall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000002201

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Progress and Welfare in Southeast Asia by John Sydenham Furnivall Pdf

Author : Gabi Waibel,Judith Ehlert,Hart N. Feuer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134634293

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Southeast Asia and the Civil Society Gaze by Gabi Waibel,Judith Ehlert,Hart N. Feuer Pdf

As developing countries with recent histories of isolation and extreme poverty, followed by restoration and reform, both Cambodia and Vietnam have seen new opportunities and demands for non-state actors to engage in and manage the effects of rapid socio-economic transformation. This book examines how in both countries, civil society actors and the state manage their relationship to one another in an environment that is continuously shaped and (re)constructed by changing legislation, collaboration and negotiation, advocacy and protest, and social control. Further, it explores the countries’ divergent experiences whilst also uncovering the underlying basis and drivers of civil society activity that are shared by Cambodia and Vietnam. Crucially, this book engages with the contested nature of civil society and how it is socially constructed through research and development activities, by looking at contemporary discourses and manifestations of civil society in the two countries, including national and community-level organisations, associations, and networks that operate in a variety of sectors, such as gender, the environment and health. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Cambodia and Vietnam, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian studies, Southeast Asian politics, development studies and civil society.

Author : M. Ramesh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0415654254

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Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia by M. Ramesh Pdf

Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on the provision and financing arrangements of these four Asian newly industrialized economies and their outcomes in terms of adequacy, efficiency and equity, drawing on extensive primary research carried out by the author. Locating the importance of Asian social policies in the wake of the recent financial crisis in the region, this work provides a comprehensive analysis of the different types of welfare state in contemporary Asia.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789292616717

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The Social Protection Indicator for Asia by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This publication provides updates on Social Protection Indicators of 24 countries in Asia, with an analysis of 2015 data on social protection programs. It shows progress in expenditure, primarily driven by social insurance and coverage between 2009 and 2015. Spending on women has improved in several countries, yet others continued to favor the nonpoor over the poor, and men over women. The Social Protection Index---now the Social Protection Indicator---was developed by the Asian Development Bank and its partners as the first comprehensive and quantitative measure of social protection systems in Asia and the Pacific.

Author : Jonathan Rigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317414582

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Challenging Southeast Asian Development by Jonathan Rigg Pdf

Over the course of the last half century, the growth economies of Southeast Asia – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – have transformed themselves into middle income countries. This book looks at how the very success of these economies has bred new challenges, novel problems, and fresh tensions, including the fact that particular individuals, sectors and regions have been marginalised by these processes. Contributing to discussions of policy implications, the book melds endogenous and exogenous approaches to thinking about development paths, re-frames Asia’s model(s) of growth and draws out the social, environmental, political and economic side-effects that have arisen from growth. An interesting analysis of the problems that come alongside development’s achievements, this book is an important contribution to Southeast Asian Studies, Development Studies and Environmental Studies.

Author : Sri Wening Handayani
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292575663

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Social Protection for Informal Workers in Asia by Sri Wening Handayani Pdf

This publication examines the need to expand social protection coverage of the informal sector to support working age productivity, reduce vulnerability, and improve economic opportunity. Case studies from Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand offer suggestions to close social protection gaps and recommend policy solutions to create equitable and inclusive social protection programs for informal workers.

Author : ADBI
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9784899740483

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Connecting South Asia and Southeast Asia by ADBI Pdf

This report analyzes how closer regional connectivity and economic integration between South Asia and Southeast Asia can benefit both regions, with a focus on the role played by infrastructure and public policies in facilitating this process. It examines major developments in South Asian–Southeast Asian trade and investment, economic cooperation, the role of economic corridors, and regional cooperation initiatives. In particular, it identifies significant opportunities for strengthening these integration efforts as a result of the recent opening up of Myanmar in political, economic, and financial terms. This is particularly the case for land-based transportation—highways and railroads—and energy trading. The report’s focus is on connectivity in a broad sense, covering both hardware and software, including investment in infrastructure, energy trading, trade facilitation, investment financing, and support for national and regional policies.

Author : Anne Booth
Publisher : Transforming Asia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 946372981X

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Living Standards in Southeast Asia by Anne Booth Pdf

Living Standards in Southeast Asia: Changes over the Long Twentieth Century, 1900-2015 examines changes in living standards across the ten countries of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Brunei, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) from the early years of the 20th century to the early 21st century. It covers both the last decades of the colonial period, the transition to independence and the decades from 1960 to the 2010s. The study uses a range of monetary and non-monetary indicators to assess how living standards have changed over time. It examines the outcomes in the context of debates about economic growth, inequality and poverty alleviation which began in the 1960s and 1970s, and continue to the present.

Author : ASEAN.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Regionalism
ISBN : UCBK:C098975324

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The Asean Charter by ASEAN. Pdf

Author : A. Barrientos,D. Hulme
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230583092

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Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest by A. Barrientos,D. Hulme Pdf

Social protection is fast becoming an important theme in development policy. This book examines the political processes shaping social protection policies; compares the key conceptual frameworks available for analyzing social protection; and provides a comparative discussion on social protection policies focused on the poor and the poorest.

Author : Michele Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108606295

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The Politics of Cross-Border Mobility in Southeast Asia by Michele Ford Pdf

This Element explains how cross-border mobility defines diplomatic relationships between Southeast Asian states and social and political dynamics within the region's key destination countries. It begins by providing an historically situated discussion of bordering processes within the region, examining evolving historical conceptions of power and sovereignty, and processes of bordering in colonial and post-colonial times. It then turns to the political, environmental, and economic drivers of contemporary cross-border mobility before examining governments' efforts to manage different kinds of border-crossers and the tensions that these efforts give rise to. Having discussed the politics of cross-border mobility in host communities, the Element returns to the question of why consideration of bordering practices and cross-border mobility is necessary in understanding contemporary Southeast Asia.

Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300156522

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The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott Pdf

From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length from any organized state society For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states. In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of “internal colonialism.” This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott’s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.

Author : Bjoern Dressel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108800884

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Courts and Politics in Southeast Asia by Bjoern Dressel Pdf

Courts around the globe have become central players in governance, those in Southeast Asia have been no exception. This Element analyses the historical foundations, patterns, and drivers of judicialization of politics by mapping critical junctures that have shaped the emergence of modern courts in the region and providing a basic typology of courts and politics that extends the analysis to the contemporary situation. It also offers a new relational theory that helps explain the dynamics of judicial recruitment, decision-making, court performance-and ultimately perceptions of judicial legitimacy. In a region where power is often concentrated among oligarchs and clientelist political dynamics persist, it posits that courts are best comprehended as institutional hybrids. These hybrids seamlessly blend formal and informal practices, with profound implications for how Southeast Asian courts are molding both the rule of law and political governance.

Author : Ian Gough,Geof Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521834198

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Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America by Ian Gough,Geof Wood Pdf

Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as landlords, moneylenders and patrons. This book seeks to develop a conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regime in a range of countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and makes an important contribution to the literature by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America.