Social Protection Goals In East Asia

Author : Mukul G. Asher,Fauziah Zen,Astrid Dita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351867771

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Social Protection Goals in East Asia by Mukul G. Asher,Fauziah Zen,Astrid Dita Pdf

The book examines the conceptual, economic, and fiscal impact(s) of the Social Protection Floor (SPF) initiative of the International Labor Organisation (ILO) and other policy influencers by first critically examining the methodologies used by the international agencies to estimate the fiscal costs of designated minimum package(s) of social protection programs. The book also briefly reviews the methodologies used and usefulness of the Social Protection Index (SPI) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Second, the book analyses strategies and specific initiatives used by the selected East Asian countries (China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam), designed to progress towards the social protection goals underlying the Social Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in September 2015, and endorsed by the countries covered in this book. Finally, the book provides a framework for generating fiscal space to fund the social protection programs and initiatives. The country chapters utilise this framework in the context of each specific country to suggest generating fiscal space.

Author : Mukul G. Asher,Fukunari Kimura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317510666

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Strengthening Social Protection in East Asia by Mukul G. Asher,Fukunari Kimura Pdf

This book focuses on relatively unexplored areas in pension and health care arrangements, including financing, in East Asia. The book aims to fill the literature gap on social protection in East Asia by covering issues such as pension and health care arrangements in the depopulating high income countries of Japan and Korea; the challenges of the pay-out phase in Defined Contribution (DC) arrangements in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore; and the extension of coverage of social protection schemes in China, India, and Indonesia. It also reviews social protection from a much wider perspective and extends coverage of social protection in terms of both the proportion of the population with access to the social protection scheme and the types of risks faced by the households and by society as a whole. The book also gives attention to reforms of civil service pensions.

Author : Peter Saunders,Alex Jingwei He
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351585750

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Social Protection in East Asian Chinese Societies by Peter Saunders,Alex Jingwei He Pdf

Despite its impressive economic growth, East Asia is facing daunting challenges in mitigating its social problems, including chronic poverty and worsening social inequality. The past decade has seen growing scholarly interest in the development of East Asian social policies not only because of the sheer size of the population and its global impact, but also due to the stark contrast between this region’s economic prosperity and the ongoing issue of severe social inequality. This book presents a collection of studies on aspects of social protection in East Asian Chinese societies, including Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Contributions by leading social policy scholars working in and on the region aim to promote scholarly understanding of the pressures facing social protection systems in East Asia, identify existing gaps and emerging social policy issues and review the effectiveness of existing programmes. The evidence presented and insights generated will promote further debate and facilitate meaningful comparative social policy studies in the region and beyond. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Asian Public Policy.

Author : K. Tang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780333985496

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Social Welfare Development in East Asia by K. Tang Pdf

Comparative social policy has long neglected welfare development in Asia. Not much is known about social welfare in the economically successful East Asian tigers (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan). They are late starters in social welfare but each has its own trajectory of welfare development. Despite the presence of extensive social welfare, they have shied away from western-style welfare states. The presence of strong developmental states and their development ethos explain in large part the underdevelopment of state welfare.

Author : Erfried Adam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Asia
ISBN : WISC:89092016732

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Social Protection in Southeast & East Asia by Erfried Adam Pdf

Author : James Midgley,Kwong Leung Tang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135255657

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Social Policy and Poverty in East Asia by James Midgley,Kwong Leung Tang Pdf

This book looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the ongoing challenge of poverty in East Asia despite the region’s spectacular experience of economic growth in decent decades. The East Asian miracle resulted over the last four decades in a transformation of the region’s traditional agrarian economies and significant increases in standards of living for many ordinary people. Even though it was given little attention, poverty has remained an ongoing problem. The problem became particularly evident however with the Asian financial crisis of 1997 when many low income and middle class workers became unemployed. As a result of this crisis, the need for effective social policies and social security programs were recognized. The idea that economic growth would solve the problem of poverty was increasingly challenged. Even in China today, where rapid growth has created new employment opportunities and the promise of prosperity for many, the government has recognized that the problem of poverty cannot be addressed only through economic growth but that comprehensive social policies must be formulated, and this includes the development of an effective security system.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789292541408

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The Social Protection Index by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Investments in social protection help to reduce poverty and vulnerability, and promote inclusive growth. This report analyzes comprehensive data on government social protection programs in 35 countries in Asia and the Pacific. The Social Protection Index---developed by the Asian Development Bank---helps to assess the nature and the effectiveness of these programs and to facilitate cross-country comparisons. It provides governments with policy-relevant data and analysis to inform decisions concerning the reform and expansion of social protection programs.

Author : Chak Kwan Chan,Kinglun Ngok
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136680052

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Welfare Reform in East Asia by Chak Kwan Chan,Kinglun Ngok Pdf

In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "welfare-to-work" or "workfare". Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with much smaller social welfare budgets, a strong self-reliance and a much higher dependency on family networks to provide support, the workfare approach is also being adopted in many Asian countries. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of how welfare reform around work is implemented in leading East Asian. Based on the experiences of seven East Asian economies - including China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau - this book critically analyses current trends; the social, economic and political factors which lead to the implementation of workfare; compares the similarities and differences of workfare in the different polities and assesses their effectiveness.

Author : Misa Izuhara
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857930293

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Handbook on East Asian Social Policy by Misa Izuhara Pdf

Dramatic socio-economic transformations over the last two decades have brought social policy and social welfare issues to prominence in many East Asian societies. Since the 1990s and in response to national as well as global pressure, there have been substantial developments and reforms in social policy in the region but the development paths have been uneven. Until recently, comparative analysis of East Asian social policy tends to have focused on the established welfare state of Japan and the emerging welfare regimes of four Tiger Economies. Much of the recent debate indeed preceded Chinas re-emergence onto the world economy. In this context, this Handbook brings China more fully into the contemporary social policy debates in East Asia. Organised around five themes from welfare state developments, to theories and methodologies, to current social policy issues, the Handbook presents original research from leading specialists in the fields, and provides a fresh and updated perspective to the study of social policy. Providing a comparative international approach, this Handbook will appeal to academics, researchers and students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels working in the fields of social policy, as well as policy makers and practitioners who are interested in social policy lessons from other societies.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : H. Kwon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230523661

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Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia by H. Kwon Pdf

Since the economic crisis of 1997, there have been significant social policy reforms in East Asia. Using the concept of the developmental welfare state, this book seeks to answer whether the welfare reforms in East Asia have extended social rights while maintaining its developmental credentials. Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia explains the way in which the shift in economic strategy has influenced social policy reform in East Asia. It also analyzes the political dynamics of social policy in which economic imperatives for social reform were transformed into social policy reform.

Author : Mukul G. Asher,Sothea Oum,Friska Parulian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 6028660280

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Social Protection in East Asia-current State and Challenges by Mukul G. Asher,Sothea Oum,Friska Parulian Pdf

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789292574987

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The Social Protection Indicator by Asian Development Bank Pdf

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to develop and update a comprehensive set of comparable and accessible data to help measure performance of social protection programs in Asia. The Social Protection Indicator (SPI) report presents data on government social protection programs collected from 25 countries in Asia---while a companion publication covers the 13 countries in the Pacific. This report is an update of The Social Protection Index: Assessing Results for Asia and the Pacific published by ADB in 2013. It helps monitor and assess the nature of governments' social insurance, social assistance, and labor market programs in Asia.

Author : I. Holliday,P. Wilding
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230597563

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Welfare Capitalism in East Asia by I. Holliday,P. Wilding Pdf

Social Policy has been a key dimension of dynamic economic growth in East Asia's 'little tigers' and is also a prominent strand of their responses to the financial crisis of the late 1990s. This systematic comparative analysis of social policy in the region focuses on the key sectors of education, health, housing and social security. It sets these sectoral analyses in wider contexts of debates about developmental states, the East Asian welfare model and globalization.

Author : Sri Wening Handayani
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 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.