Description

The books include addresses and papers from leading scholars and policymakers, and cover a wide range of poverty issues. Volume 2 focuses on the areas of Social Protection: labor markets, social insurance, social assistance for the most vulnerable groups and community-based interventions such as social funds, microinsurance or disaster prevention and management. Contributors include from Robert Holzmann, Vice-President and Director The World Bank, to Noriyuki Suzuki, General Secretary of the International Confederation of Trade Unions ICTU-APRO.

The two volumes include sections devoted to:

• Consideration of broad strategic approaches for poverty reduction efforts in the Asia and Pacific Region
• Macroeconomic concerns and the role of trade and growth in poverty reduction
• Promoting good governance
• Role of civil society and the private sector
• Priority social development policies to achieve irreversible reduction of poverty
• How to design social protection interventions to effectively reduce poverty
• Special topics related to poverty measurements and targeted poverty reduction efforts
• Views from non-governmental organizations and other civil society groups such as trade unions

The books include addresses and papers from leading scholars and policymakers, and cover a wide range of poverty issues.

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Proceedings
  • Reducing Poverty: The Role of Social protection and Social Risk Management
  • Social Protection Policy and Governance: an ILO Perspective
  • Poverty and Social Protection: DFID Approach
  • Social Protection Policies in Asia and the Pacific into the 21st Century
  • Labor Market Policies and Social Protection in Asia
  • Globalization and Labor Market Challenges: the Role of Trade Unions
  • Labor Market Policies and Programs for Pro-poor Growth in the Republic of Korea
  • Social Insurance for All
  • Equitable Growth and Access: The Role of Social Assistance
  • Keep Our Hands Active: Responding to the Challenges of Social Protection and Old Age in the 21st Century
  • Health Insurance for the Poor Through Community Schemes - Is it Viable? 
  • Community-based Social Funds
  • Post-conflict Rehabilitation: Experience of the Social Fund of the Kingdom of Cambodia
  • Disaster Risk Management and Vulnerability Reduction: Protecting the Poor