The current global economic crisis has led to greater prominence for the issue of strengthening social protection systems in Asia. This paper analyzes the key factors determining and the possible avenues for strengthening social protection systems in Asia. The choice of an appropriate...

Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs are positively correlated with rising incomes, ageing, urbanization, and a shift from communicable to life-style diseases, managing these costs is a major challenge. There are...

Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs are positively correlated with rising incomes, ageing, urbanization, and a shift from communicable to life-style diseases, managing these costs is a major challenge. There are...

"There is considerable scope for examining pension and healthcare together as a social protection system, and for regressed analytical studies, focusing on specific major issues of relevance in strengthening social protection. This book aims to fill the literature gap on social protection in...

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...