Asia's fiscal challenge : financing the social protection agenda of the sustainable development goals / edited by Sri Wening Handayani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Handayani, Sri Wening, editor.

Asian Development Bank, publisher, copyright holder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiscal policy--Asia.

Fiscal policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Metro Manila, Philippines : Asian Development Bank, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Developing countries in Asia have expanded their social protection programs. One of the key challenges is creating sustainable financing---considered the bedrock for success of the social protection agendas of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda and Strategy 2030 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This book focuses on the analysis of fiscal requirements to achieve the social protection agenda of the SDGs and explore options to close the gaps in population coverage and adequacy of protection of social assistance, health care, and social insurance systems of ADB developing members over the next decade.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Tables, Figures, and Boxes

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Contributors

Overview

1 The Social Protection Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals and Its Fiscal Challenge

2 Mongolia

3 Myanmar

4 Timor-Leste

5 Social Assistance

6 Health Care

7 Social Insurance

Appendixes

1 Sustainable Development Goals, Governance, and Outcome Targets Constituting the Social Protection Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals

2 A Robust, Two-Step Modeling Methodology

3 Statistical Tables.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

92-9261-291-3