Social Protection Goals in East Asia

Strategies and Methods to Generate Fiscal Space
Herausgeber: Asher, Mukul G; Dita, Astrid; Zen, Fauziah

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Produktbeschreibung

By examining different methodologies, strategies, and intiatives, this book explores the conceptual, economic and fiscal impacts of the Social Protection Floor initiative of policy influencers, and provides a framework for generating fiscal space to fund social protection programs and initiatives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781138292963
• ISBN-10: 1138292966
• Artikelnr.: 52009552

Autorenporträt

Mukul G. Asher is Professorial Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He specialises in social security and public financial management issues in Asia. He has published widely in national and international journals, and authored or edited more than fifteen books. He is on the Editorial Board of several journals, including the Journal of the Economics of Ageing and Poverty & Public Policy. He has been a consultant to multilateral organisations such as the IMF, The World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the World Health Organization. He has led Executive Training Programs for officials of several countries, including Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, and Kazakhstan. He served as Chairman of the 5th State Finance Commission of Haryana State in India from May 2016 to September 2017. Fauziah Zen is Senior Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). She is also a faculty member at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia, and a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University, Japan. She has been working with the governments of East Asia in the fields of public finance, infrastructure and connectivity, disaster management, and social protection. Astrid Dita is an independent researcher working on issues related to public finance, fiscal decentralisation, infrastructure, and social protection in Indonesia. She is consultant to various international organisations such as Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and AusAID. She obtained her Masters in Economics from University of Indonesia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Approaches and Fiscal Space Generation for Social Protection Goals: An
Overview (Mukul Asher, Fauziah Zen, and Astrid Dita) 2. Review of
Approaches to Assess the Sustainability of Social Protection Floors
(Krzysztof Hagemejer) 3. Social Protection Programs in China: Assessments
and Prospects (Jin Feng) 4. Social Protection System in India: An Analysis
of the Recent Initiatives (Mukul Asher and Yutika Vora) 5. The Case of
Social Protection Floor in Indonesia (Fauziah Zen and Astrid Dita) 6.
Social Protection Floor: A Perspective from the Developing East Asia:
Thailand (Srawooth Paitoonpong, Phacharawadee Tasee, and Pimrumpa
Waisuriya) 7. Social Protection Floor: Philippines (Aniceto C. Orbeta, Jr.)
8. An Analysis of Social Protection Floor (SPF) Arrangements in Vietnam
(Nguyen Thi Lan Huong)