Strengthening Social Protection in East Asia

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Mukul G. Asher (National University of Singapore) Fukunari Kimura (Keio University, Japan)

Strengthening Social Protection in East Asia

Mukul G. Asher (National University of Singapore), Fukunari Kimura (Keio University, Japan)

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English

Routledge
20 April 2015

Welfare economics; Pensions

Series: Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics

This book focuses on relatively unexplored areas in pension and health care arrangements, including financing, in East Asia. The book aims to fill the literature gap on social protection in East Asia by covering issues such as pension and health care arrangements in the depopulating high income countries of Japan and Korea; the challenges of the pay-out phase in Defined Contribution (DC) arrangements in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore; and the extension of coverage of social protection schemes in China, India, and Indonesia. It also reviews social protection from a much wider perspective and extends coverage of social protection in terms of both the proportion of the population with access to the social protection scheme and the types of risks faced by the households and by society as a whole. The book also gives attention to reforms of civil service pensions.

Edited by: Mukul G. Asher (National University of Singapore), Fukunari Kimura (Keio University, Japan)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9781138817142
ISBN 10: 1138817147
Series: Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 20 April 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Selected Issues in Strengthening Social Protection in East Asia: An Overview 2. Managing Pension and Healthcare Costs in Rapidly Aging Depopulating Countries: The Case of Japan 3. Managing Pension and Healthcare Costs in Rapidly Aging Depopulating Countries: The Case of Korea 4. Structuring the Payout Phase in a Defined Contribution (DC) Scheme in High Income Countries: Experiences of Australia and New Zealand 5. Structuring the Payout Phase in a Defined Contribution (DC) Scheme in High Income Countries: Experiences of Singapore 6. Civil Service Pension Arrangements in India, the Philippines and Thailand: An Assessment 7. Strengthening Sustainability and Extending the Pension Coverage in China 8. Extending the Coverage of Social Protection amongst Informal Workers in India 9. Extending Social Protection for Informal Sector Workers in Indonesia

Mukul G. Asher is an Indian national, specializing in social security and public financial management issues in Asia. He has published widely in national and international journals and has authored or edited more than 10 books. He is on the editorial advisory boards of several journals, including the International Social Security Review. He has been a consultant to multilateral organizations and has led executive training programs for officials of several countries, including Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Brunei, and Tanzania. His interactions with media have been extensive. Fukunari Kimura has been Chief Economist of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) since 2008 and Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Keio University, since 2000. He obtained his PhD (in Economics) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991.

Reviews for Strengthening Social Protection in East Asia

'This collection of essays by the leading authorities in the field is a superb addition to the literature and provides a most reliable guideline to the public policy makers in East Asia and Oceania Region.' -Yukinobu Kitamura, Professor, Research Centre for Information and Statistics of Social Science, Hitotsubashi University