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Social Protection and the Global Financial Crisis
In the context of the global financial crisis and down-turn in most developed and developing countries, sustainability of welfare and social policies to protect the poor assumes importance. This is especially so in developing countries which have not been able to universalize social protection. Two recent papers (Bailing our the world's poorest WPS4763 and Lessons from WB research on crises WPS4779 from the World Bank argue for continued relevance of well designed safety net programmes and also emphasise the need for understanding long term implications of financial crises for economic development and vulnerability of the poor.

The Centre for Social Protection (CSP) website provides a global focus for research, policy analysis, and capacity building on social protection. It provides a number of key publications, resources and list of partners working on social protection. The CSP website is currently being re-developed with the new site being launched by the end of 2008.
http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/centreforsocialprotection

A World Bank website dedicated to a project studying how to address vulnerability in East Asia. It includes literature on research material on country studies being conducted in Lao PDR, Timor Leste and Vietnam. Background papers are available on a wide range of social protection issues such as existing safety net programmes, changes in the labour market, health and agricultural shocks, gender vulnerability and rising food prices afflicting the regions.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES

A website of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) dedicated to the role of social protection in poverty alleviation and growth promotion. It has a number of resources and links to articles on the role of social protection in social development, governance and the politics of social protection, risk, disasters and emergencies, how social protection links to economic growth, delivering social protection and social protection instruments.
http://www.odi.org.uk/themes/social-protection/

An comprehensive database of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on social protection activities, highlighting in particular labor market policies, social insurance and social assistance programmes, micro-and area-based schemes addressing vulnerability at the community level (micro-insurance, agricultural insurance, social funds, programs to manage natural disasters etc) and child protection programmes to ensure the healthy and productive development of children.
http://www.adb.org/SocialProtection/default.asp

The International Poverty Centre (IPC), a joint project between the United Nations Development Programme and the Brazilian Government specializes in analyzing poverty and inequality and offering research-based policy recommendations on how to reduce them. Asia Pacific studies encompass assessments of poverty in China, government fiscal policy in Thailand, the employment guarantee scheme in India and an analysis of jobs, growth and poverty in Vietnam, among others.
http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/

The social protection website of the International Labour Organization examines concerns pertaining to social security and labour protection in particular and additionally pays special attention to vulnerable groups such as migrants and those with HIV/AIDS. It contains social security policy briefings and also campaign material on extending social security coverage for all. Resources are also available on issues of occupational health and safety and conditions of work.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/

A new website is set up addressing vulnerability in East Asia. It has relevant material and links on risk and vulnerability in East Asia and the Pacific. The website is part of an ongoing regional study on vulnerability in the region. Its makes available the background papers and survey instruments that have been developed by the team.
www.worldbank.org/eap/vulnerability

  
   
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Latest Publications
 
What Works for the Poorest?: Poverty Reduction Programmes for the World's Extreme Poor
Members of the Centre for Social Protection, IDS and Social Protection in Asia have contributed to this new book edited by David Lawson et al and published by Practical Action (2010)


People's Social Protection Agenda - Towards Social Protection for All - Compiled by the Center for Labor Justice, University of the Philippines School of Labor and Industrial Relations (UP SOLAIR) in co-operation with Homenet Southeast Asia, Homenet Philippines et al


Social Protection as Development Policy: Asian Perspectives by Naila Kabeer and Sarah Cook has now been published by Routledge New Delhi.


Barriers to the Extension of Social Protection: Evidence from Asia - a special edition of the IDS Bulletin, with contributions from SPA project researchers and directors, was published on 1 July 2010.


Rights, Responsibilities and Social Protection. the Dynamics of Supply and Demand: an issues paper - Julie Gaunt and Naila Kabeer.


Towards Gender Equality in China’s Economic and Social Transformation: The Rise in Informal Employment and its Impact on Women During China’s Economic Transition - Sarah Cook with Quheng Deng, Meiyan Wang and Ni Yuan (2009) – The report details the gender consequences of China’s economic transition through an investigation of the changing patterns of employment and their impacts on women. In particular, the extent to which changes in China’s urban labour market have led to a rise in ‘informal’ employment, and its implications for different groups are explored.

Social Protection and Poverty - UNRISD paper by Armando Barrientos - The paper seeks to provide an overview of social protection, and to provide an assessment of its potential contribution to addressing poverty and vulnerability in developing countries.



Social Security for China’s Migrant Workers – Providing for Old Age - Paper by Andrew Watson - The article explores how the current social security system in China, based on household registration, discriminates against migrant workers because of their mobility and the lack of mechanisms to transfer benefits between pools. Faced with this challenge, China’s government has begun to introduce policy reforms to improve social security for migrants. This article explores this development through a focus on old-age insurance. It analyses the special needs of migrants, the obstacles facing policy development and the proposed solutions.



HomeNet Thailand Policy Briefs on Social Security, Health Insurance and Legal Protections

The briefs discuss the country experiences of Thailand in extending social security cover to informal workers, increasing effectiveness of universal health coverage schemes, especially for informal workers’ health problems and also ongoing advocacy for a Homeworker Protection Act in Thailand.

• Social Security
• Health
• Home Based Workers



SPA Working Papers
Preliminary research findings from the Social Protection in Asia Programme

Policy briefs from Homenet Philippines on Health Insurance, Social Security, Occupational Health and Safety and Social Protection

IDS In Focus Issue 1 - Social Protection through a Livelihoods Lens

  
 
 
   
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