Social Protection as Development Policy: Asian Perspectives

Foreword 1. Introduction -- Exclusions, Deficits and Trajectories: Rethinking Social Protection as Development Policy in the Asia Region Sarah Cook and Naila Kabeer Part 1. Social Protection in Transition Economies: Transformation, Restructuring and Coping in China and Vietnam 2. Shock-induced Poverty in Urban China Meiyan Wang 3. Social Protection and the Economic Well-being of Families with Dependent Children in Urban China Zhang Xiulan and Xu Yuebin 4. Gender, Work and Security in Urban China: The Reconstruction of Identity as Laid-off Worker Sarah Cook and Susan Jolly 5. Social Protection and Market Reforms in Vietnam Robert L. Bach and Le Bach Duong 6. Social Security for Rural Migrant Workers in China: Current Coverage, Institutional Design and Policy Suggestions Zhu Dewen Wang,…