Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2022

Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2022
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2022-05-19
Genre:
ISBN: 926450205X

This fifth edition of Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific provides an overview of social indicators for the region. Quantitative evidence on social indicators such as poverty, social expenditures, and demographic trends across countries in Asia and the Pacific helps economies identify where they can learn from the experience of other countries.

Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2014

Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2014
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2014-10-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9264220550

This is the third edition of Society at a Glance Asia/Pacific, a regularly updated OECD overview of social indicators. This edition's special features cover gender equality and social protection expenditure.

Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2019

Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2019
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9264310886

This is the fourth edition of Society at a Glance Asia/Pacific, the OECD’s overview of social indicators for the region. The report addresses the growing demand for quantitative evidence on social well-being and its trends across countries in Asia and the Pacific. Chapter 1 introduces this ...

Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2022 Measuring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage

Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2022 Measuring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2022-11-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9264396284

This seventh edition of Health at a Glance Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health-care resources and utilisation, health-care expenditure and financing, and quality of care across 27 Asia-Pacific countries and territories. It also provides a series of dashboards to compare performance across countries and territories, and a thematic analysis on the health impact of COVID-19.

Reflections on the World of Human Inspirations

Reflections on the World of Human Inspirations
Author: Gabriel Bekö
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2024-01-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1527556271

Inspiration is the initial spark that puts us on track towards our beliefs, attitudes, and actions. It partly defines who we are and whom we will become. But what are the sources of our inspirations, what governs them, how do they take shape in our lives and how are our lives shaped by them? Can they be right and wrong, and do we have the power to control them? This book provides an analysis of the historical, geographical, and cultural aspects of those countless moments that ignite our passions, guide our efforts, or cause the lack of both. Through the study of human inspirations, the author elaborates a variety of issues, including current societal, political, and global challenges, spirituality, human character, individualism, education, as well as the contrast between what used to be the political East and West, communism and capitalism. The book offers an intriguing look at the inflation of inspirations in our rapidly changing societies and its global implications. It fuses numerous fields to offer a refined view of the world and ourselves in it. Do advanced societies consist of advanced individuals, or is it time to reassess our values, redefine our principles, and seek inspirations that dare to question the status quo and introduce us to a category of dignity that moves us closer to a truly advanced world?

Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia

Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia
Author: Arvid J. Lukauskas
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2024-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501778765

Misery beneath the Miracle in East Asia challenges prevailing views of the East Asian economic miracle. Existing scholarship has overlooked the severity, persistence, and harmful consequences of the social-welfare crises affecting the region. Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro fill this gap and put a major asterisk on East Asia's economic record. Combining big-picture analysis, abundant data, a dynamic interdisciplinary framework, and powerful human stories, they shed light on the social ills that governments have failed to address adequately, including low wages, child abuse, elderly poverty, and substandard housing. One of the major forces behind the multidimensional welfare crises is the region's productivist welfare strategy, which prioritizes economic growth while abandoning a robust social safety net, leaving the most vulnerable segments of society largely unprotected. Misery beneath the Miracle in East Asia brings the region into debates over the dangers of seeking growth at all costs that are currently embroiling the United States and other advanced industrialized countries.

Development Centre Studies Towards Greener and More Inclusive Societies in Southeast Asia

Development Centre Studies Towards Greener and More Inclusive Societies in Southeast Asia
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2024-03-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9264787380

Understanding the effects of both climate change and green growth policies on jobs and people is thus essential for making the transition in Southeast Asia an inclusive one. The study explores these issues, with emphasis on the potential effects on labour of an energy transition in Indonesia, and of a transition in the region’s agricultural sector, illustrated by a simulated conversion from conventional to organic rice farming.

Spatial Spillovers

Spatial Spillovers
Author: Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 292
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9819749018

The Social Protection Indicator for Asia

The Social Protection Indicator for Asia
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2022-12-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9292699288

This report assesses social protection measures in Asia and outlines the need for more inclusive, shock-responsive policies to cut poverty and to spur equitable development. Centered around ADB’s Social Protection Indicator, it assesses data from 26 countries to show how measures are evolving to provide increased support and opportunities for the poor, women, and people with disabilities. Explaining why the COVID-19 pandemic made many more vulnerable, the report suggests that it also offers opportunities for longer-term expansion of social protection. It proposes measures for strengthening data collection and compilation to enhance design and effectiveness of social protection.