Strengthening Social Protection in East Asia

This book reviews social protection from a much wider perspective, extending coverage of social protection both in terms of the proportion of the population with excess to the social protection scheme, and the types of risks faced by the households and by society as a whole. It also offers a focused and detailed analysis on issues such as: the concerns of sustainability, structure of payout phrase and coverage for informal workers. It also covers issues in pension and health care arrangements in depopulating high income countries of Japan and Korea to countries with large populations but low coverage of formal social protection such as China, India and Indonesia.

This book focuses on relatively unexplored areas in pension and health care arrangements, including financing, in East Asia. The book aims to fill the literature gap on social protection in East Asia by covering issues such as pension and health care arrangements in the depopulating high income countries of Japan and Korea; the challenges of the pay-out phase in Defined Contribution (DC) arrangements in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore; and the extension of coverage of social protection schemes in China, India, and Indonesia. It also reviews social protection from a much wider perspective and extends coverage of social protection in terms of both the proportion of the population with access to the social protection scheme and the types of risks faced by the households and by society as a whole. The book also gives attention to reforms of civil service pensions.