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Labour Regulations in India: Improving the Social Security Framework
(Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2017-01-30)
An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security. These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that affect households from time to time, such as illness, ...
Mongolia Social Protection Sector Fact Sheet
(Asian Development Bank, 2017-06-30)
Due to persistent economic volatility, limited diversification, internal migration, and rapid urbanization, Mongolia currently faces rising inequality, expanding informal sector employment, and increasing vulnerability. This requires continuous focus ...
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In-Kind Transfer and Child Development: Evidence from Subsidized Rice Program in Indonesia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-03-30)In the aftermath of the Asian financial crises, the Indonesian government launched a subsidized rice program called RASKIN in 1998 to moderate the shocks of food price inflation and reduced employment to poor households. The program has been continued ... -
Superbug: Time for ASEAN Collective Action
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2018-02-12)The mutation of microorganisms has reached the point of no return. This is an opportune time for ASEAN to lead the world in the fight against antimicrobial resistance before it is too late. -
Welfare Issues in Price Control on Occasions of Calamities, Emergencies and Like Occurrences
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2017-12-30)Traditional interventions during and after major disaster events usually focus on the welfare of individuals and households, often at the expense or neglect of local economic recovery. The Price Act (RA7581) establishes a mechanism that supposedly ... -
Social protection in the Philippines
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2017-12-30)Despite the efforts of the government to save Filipinos from the claws of poverty, many poor and even non poor households remain vulnerable (Mina and Imai 2016). To support these households, the Philippine government implements a number of social ... -
70 Years of Development: The way Forward
(Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2017-12-30)The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SPDI) provides the global sustainable development community with representation from Pakistan as well as South Asia as a whole. This quarterly publication provides Research and News bulletins on current ... -
Social Protection Brief: Reforming Social Welfare Programs in Mongolia
(Asian Development Bank, 2017-11-30)Social welfare in Mongolia consists of transfers and services designed to support poor and vulnerable groups such as the elderly, orphaned, and people with disabilities. The main objective, as defined in the Social Welfare Law, is to protect and assist ... -
Access to medicines in the Philippines: Overcoming the barriers
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2017-11-30)This Policy Note explores the barriers in access to medicines of Filipinos. It also presents key recommendations and strategies policymakers should consider in advancing UHC in the country -
Intergenerational Transfers, Demographic Transition, and Altruism: Problems in Developing Asia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-10-30)This paper develops a three-period overlapping-generations model where middle-aged agents care about not only their own lifetime utility but also their old parents’ and children’s well-being. The double altruistic agents choose amounts of intergenerational ... -
Knowledge Attitude and Practice (KAP) Survey on Social Protection Schemes in Selective Districts
(Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2017-10-30)In this study, the knowledge of respondents about more than 25 social protection programmes was assessed. According to the survey results, majority of the respondents knew about a few of those programmes. In general, it has been found out that majority ... -
Community pharmaceuticals: Expenditure trends
(New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, 2017-09-30)This report describes the analysis of trends in the CPB and the community pharmaceutical expenditure component of the CPB. This expenditure data was based on publicly available information from Vote Health Budget Estimates, Official Information Act ...