Quality Jobs Essential to Asia's Growth, Stability - Report

Asia’s policymakers must take decisive steps to generate high quality, productive jobs if the region is to sustain and broaden the benefits of its economic expansion of the past two decades, says an ADB report published today. Read More

ADB and Social Protection: Challenges and Opportunities

This report takes stock of ADB’s support for social protection and the progress with implementing ADB’s Social Protection Strategy. It presents the institution’s social protection interventions from 1996 up to 2013. Read More

Enhancing Social Protection in Asia and the Pacific

Interest in social protection has been growing since the global financial crisis heightened awareness of the many millions of people in Asia and the Pacific who live in poverty or vulnerable situations. Read More

Reducing Risks, Increasing Opportunities

Income poverty has fallen in Asia and the Pacific as millions of people have benefited from the extraordinary economic gains of the past two decades but progress has been highly uneven, leaving one in three Asians poor and vulnerable to economic, social and environmental risks.

During 1996–2008, ADB provided $2.3 billion in loans to help developing member countries (DMCs) increase their social protection programs so that those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder could also benefit from the region’s growth.

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Facts and Figures

3.1 billion
people live in Asia and the Pacific, half of the world's population

900 million
people in Asia and the Pacific comprise the poor

40%
of the population in Asia and the Pacific are below 19 years old

What's New

Event | 28 Jun 2012 - 29 Jun 2012
Final Regional Workshop on Social Protection Index (SPI)

Event | 23 Nov 2011 - 24 Nov 2011
Midterm Workshop on Updating and Improving the Social Protection Index

News | 23 Sep 2011
New Report Finds International Finance Institutions Critical for Job Creation in Emerging Markets

News | 23 Aug 2011
Quality Jobs Essential to Asia's Growth, Stability - Report

Event | 6 Apr 2011 - 7 Apr 2011
ADB Inception Workshop on Updating and Improving the Social Protection Index (SPI)

Publications

The Revised Social Protection Index: Methodology and Handbook

1 Nov 2011
Demographic Change, Intergenerational Transfers, and the Challenges for Social Protection Systems in the People's Republic of China

1 Oct 2011
Why Does Population Aging Matter So Much for Asia? Population Aging, Economic Growth, and Economic Security in Asia

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Project Briefs

Dec 2011
Improving Labor Market through Higher Education Reform Project in Mongolia
Dec 2011
Supporting the Development of a Social Protection Framework in Nepal
Dec 2011
Reducing Child Malnutrition through Social Protection in Nepal
All Social Protection Project Briefs