Social Protection in ASIA Policy-Research and Network Building Program

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Reports/Papers

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 (attached)

Social Protection as Development Policy: Asian Perspectives by Naila Kabeer and Sarah Cook has now been published by Routledge New Delhi. See http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415585736/

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

Network For Transformative Social Protection has released this communique at the “Southeast Asia Roundtable Strategising Meeting on Transformative Social Protection” held in Thailand on October 12-13, 2009. SPA is part of this network.

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in an Era of Global Uncertainty - Asia-Pacific Regional Report 2009-10. Full report available at
http://content.undp.org/go/cms-service/stream/asset/?asset_id=2269033

IPC-IG publication - From Social Safety Net to Social Policy? The Role of Conditional Cash Transfers in Welfare State Development in Latin America - Drawing on the experience of six countries in Latin America, this paper identifies the variations and recent trends in CCT design and implementation. Based on this review, it considers the contribution of CCTs to the potential transition from a largely absent or minimal safety net to a coordinated system of social policies.

ILO Global Jobs Crisis Observatory - A series of papers documenting social security in the time of crisis is available at
http://staging2.ilo.org/pls/apex/f?p=109:31:1053709083995573::NO:31:P31_SUBJECT_ID:12089

Outputs of the ODI Social Protection programme
(i) Social Protection, Rural Development and Food Security: Issues paper on the role of social protection in rural development - Rachel Slater and Anna McCord
http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/4520.pdf

(ii) Targeting of Social Transfers: A review for DFID - Rachel Slater and John Farrington (with inputs from Marcella Vigneri, Mike Samson, and Shaheen Akter)
http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/4521.pdf

(iii) Overview of Public Works Programmes in sub-Saharan Africa - Report prepared by Anna McCord with Rachel Slater http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/4700.pdf

The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Women in Southeast Asia - Oxfam Studies. Oxfam GB has published six country case studies on impacts of the global economic crisis on women in Southeast Asia:

(i) Women Paying the Price: The impact of the global financial crisis on women in Southeast Asia, Oxfam GB Research Report, Yada Praparpun
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/economic_crisis/downloads/rr_gec_
impact_on_southeast_asia_080210.pdf

(ii) More Vulnerable: The impact of the economic downturn on women in Cambodia, Oxfam GB Research Report, Ngo Sothath and Chan Sophal
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/economic_crisis/downloads/rr_gec_impact_on_cambodia_170210.pdf

(iii) The Real Story Behind the Numbers: The impacts of the global economic crisis 2008–2009 on Indonesia’s women workers, Oxfam GB Research Report, May Miller-Dawkins, Irwansyah and Roysepta Abimanyu
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/economic_crisis/downloads/rr_gec_impact_on_indonesia_050110.pdf

(iv) Feminised Recession: The impact of the global financial crisis on women workers in the Philippines, Oxfam GB Research Report, Kristina Gaerlan, Marion Cabrera and Patricia Samia, edited by Ed L. Santoalla
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/economic_crisis/downloads/rr_gec_impact_on_philippines_120210.pdf

(v) Triple Burden: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Thailand, Oxfam GB Research Report, Srawooth Paitoonpong, Nipanan Akkarakul and Sujitra Rodsomboon - http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/economic_crisis/downloads/rr_gec_impact_on_thailand_120210.pdf

(vi) Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam, Oxfam GB Research Report, Aphitchaya Nguanbanchong http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/economic_crisis/downloads/rr_gec_impact_on_vietnam_090210.pdf

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.

World Bank reports on China and East Asia - Two new reports on East Asia and China – “Transforming the Rebound into Recovery” and “China Quarterly Update”, November 2009 - released by the World Bank bring out an optimistic outlook for the region. These reports are appreciative of the interventions of the governments that resulted in quicker recovery from the economic downturn.

	The Global Gender Gap Report 2009 - Through the Global Gender Gap Reports, the World Economic Forum has been quantifying the magnitude of gender based disparities and tracking their progress over time. Report available at http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/report2009.pdf

	UNICEF Report on Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition - A Survival and Development Priority. Report available at http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/files/Tracking_Progress_on_Child_and_Maternal_Nutrition_EN_110309.pdf

	ADB Institute Working Paper - "Patterns of Inclusive Growth in Developing Asia: Insights from an Enhanced Growth-Poverty Elasticity Analysis" - seeks to identify key factors that explain the observed wide variation in patterns of inclusiveness of economic growth in Asia. It explores the growth-poverty reduction linkages, while employing a more multidimensional understanding of poverty, beyond the income or expenditure yardstick. For more details see http://www.adbi.org/files/2009.08.12.wp145.patterns.inclusive.growth.dev.asia.pdf

	ILO Global Employment Trends Report 2009 - This report examines what we know already about the impact of the crisis on jobs and what we could expect from several possible scenarios of the way it might evolve in the year ahead.

World Bank study on Poverty Reduction in Brazil, China and India - This paper makes a comparative assessment of country experiences of Brazil, China and India by trying to explain the falling poverty in varying degrees and for different reasons in their reform periods.

World Bank Study - Too Poor to Grow - This paper attempts to provide a direct empirical assessment of the impact of poverty on growth. The paper’s strategy involves including poverty indicators among the explanatory variables in an otherwise standard empirical growth equation. Using a large panel dataset, the authors find that poverty has a negative impact on growth that is significant both statistically and economically.

The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2009 - UNESCAP Report - analyses the threats posed by the three global crises that hampered development in the Asia-Pacific region in 2008 - a Great Recession in developed countries, food and fuel price volatility and climate change calamities -and outlines ways in which economies in the region can move forward in unison from crisis resilience to crisis resistance. Report available at
http://www.unescap.org/pdd/publications/survey2009/download/Survey2009.pdf

NCAER-PIF STUDY on “Evaluating Performance of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act”, available at http://www.ncaer.org/downloads/Reports/NREGA-report-downloadpage.htm

“Strengthening Social Protection for Children - West and Central Africa”, UNICEF study, available at http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/3478-full-report.pdf

	“Social Protection in South Asia: A Review”, ODI-UNICEF study, available at http://www.socialprotectionasia.org/pdfdoc/Spa_reports.pdf
	"Globalization and Informal Jobs in Developing Countries", a joint study of the International Labour Office and the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization focuses on the linkages between globalization and informal employment in developing countries, and how well designed trade and decent work policies can contribute to more favourable employment outcomes. For more details, see http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/jobs_devel_countries_e.pdf

	"Who’s Really Fighting Hunger?" - ActionAid's HungerFREE Scorecard available at http://www.socialprotectionasia.org/pdfdoc/Actionaid Hunger Free Score Cards.pdf
	"Conditional Cash Transfer Schemes for Alleviating Human Poverty: Relevance for India" - a UNDP Discussion Paper available at http://www.socialprotectionasia.org/pdfdoc/UNDP Conditional Cash Transfers.pdf

	"Global Hunger Index: The Challenge of Hunger - Focus on Financial Crisis and Gender Inequality" - an IFPRI publication available at http://www.socialprotectionasia.org/pdfdoc/Global Hunger Index IFPRI.pdf

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