Social protection as development policy

Social protection as development policy Asian perspectives / [electronic resource] : editors, Sarah Cook and Naila Kabeer. - New Delhi [India] : Routledge, 2010. - xxiv, 371 p. : ill., map.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ch. 1. Introduction : exclusions, deficits and trajectories / Sarah Cook and Naila Kabeer -- ch. 2. Shock-induced poverty in urban China / Meiyan Wang -- ch. 3. Social protection and the economic well-being of families with dependent children in urban China / Xiulan Zhang and Yuebrin Xu -- ch. 4. Gender, work and security in urban China : the reconstruction of identity as laid-off worker / Sarah Cook and Susan Jolly -- ch. 5. Social protection and market reforms in Vietnam / Robert L. Bach and Le Bach Duong -- ch. 6. Social security for rural migrant workers in China : current coverage, institutional design and policy suggestions / Dewen Wang, Yongtang Ma and Changyou Zhu -- ch. 7. Reading the signposts : social protection for home-based women workers in South Asia / Ratna M. Sudarshan -- ch. 8. Approaching basic and economic security for informal workers through national and local initiatives : case studies of home-based workers in South East Asia / Donna L. Doane -- ch. 9. Women's vulnerability, risk and social protection : an exploration of links between property ownership and domestic violence in South Asia / Nandita Bhatla, Nata Duvvury and Swati Chakraborty -- ch. 10. Food security at the local level : a study in contrast between Kerala and Orissa in India / K.P. Kannan and N. Vijayamohanan Pillai -- ch. 11. Targeting in social protection programmes : the experience of Indonesia / Asep Suryahadi ... [et al.] -- ch. 12. Crafting a graduation pathway for the ultra poor : lessons and evidence from a BRAC programme in Bangladesh / Imran Matin, Munshi Sulaiman and Mehnaz Rabbani.




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Economic development--Asia.


Asia--Social policy.


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