The objective of this note is to highlight how social protection can help lay the human capital foundations needed for poverty reduction and economic growth in the East Asia and Pacific region while also building, protecting, and deploying the human capital needed to keep up with and take...

Overview of social welfare in East Asia and the Pacific / Sharlene B.C.L. Furuto -- China's changing social welfare / Minjie Zhang -- Understanding social welfare in South Korea / Jun Sung Hong ... [et al.] -- Social welfare in Hong Kong: colonial legacy and challenges for the HKSAR / Venus...