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Social protection for informal workers in Asia / edited by Sri Wening Handayani.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Handayani, Sri Wening
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Informal sector (Economics)--Asia--Employees.
- Informal sector (Economics).
- Social security--Asia.
- Social security.
- Home-based businesses--Asia.
- Home-based businesses.
- Labor policy--Asia.
- Labor policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 405 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines : Asian Development Bank, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This publication examines the need to expand social protection coverage of the informal sector to support working age productivity, reduce vulnerability, and improve economic opportunity. Case studies from Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand offer suggestions to close social protection gaps and recommend policy solutions to create equitable and inclusive social protection programs for informal workers.
- Contents:
- Designing and delivering social protection programs for informal sector workers in Asia / Michael Samson and Kaleigh Kenny
- Financing of social protection for informal sector workers in Asia / Michael Cichon and David Cichon
- The political economy of social protection for informal economy workers in Asia / Stephen Kidd and Verena Damerau
- Governance of social protection for informal sector workers in Asia / Babken Babajanian
- Social protection for informal workers in Pakistan / Hina Shaikh
- Social protection for informal workers in the People's Republic of China / Xiulan Zhang and Yuning Wu
- Social protection for informal workers in Bangladesh / Mohammad Yunus
- Social protection for informal workers in Indonesia / D. Setyonaluri and D. Radjiman
- Social protection for informal workers in the Philippines / Ahmid Bualan
- Overcoming barriers and addressing gender dimensions in universal health care for informal workers, lessons from India and Thailand / Martha Chen and Frances Lund
- Expanding social protection coverage to informal workers / Sri Wening Handayani.
- Notes:
- "Publication stock no. BKK157437-2"--Verso of title page.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789292575663
- 929257566X
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