ch. 1. Selected issues in Strengthening social protection in East Asia : an overview / Mukul G. Asher and Fukunari Kimura -- ch. 2. Managing pension and healthcare costs in rapidly aging depopulating countries : the case of Japan / Noriyuki Takayama -- ch. 3. Managing pension and healthcare...

From the welfare state's origins in Europe, the idea of human welfare being organized through a civilized, institutionalized and uncorrupt state has caught the imagination of social activists and policy-makers around the world. This is particularly influential where rapid social development is...

East and Southeast Asia face major demographic changes over the next few decades as many countries' labor forces will start to decline, while others will experience higher labor force growth as populations and participation rates increase. A well-managed labor migration strategy presents itself...

November 2000 - A two-step approach is used to assess the extent to which the credit crunch in East Asia was supply- or demand-driven. The results for Thailand suggest that the contraction in bank lending that accompanied the crisis was the result of supply factors. Agénor, Aizenman, and...