The Poor at Risk: Surviving the Economic Crisis in Southeast Asia
Final Report of the Project: Social Safety Net Programs in Selected Southeast Asian Countries, 1997-2000
Prepared by the joint Canada-Southeast Asia Project Team: T.G. McGee, Leonora Angeles, Cynthia Bautista, Sity Daud, Geoff Hainsworth, Steffanie Scott, Bakti Setiawan, Somchai Suksiriserekul, and Vu Tuan Anh
Centre for Southeast Asian Research, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia
This report was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency, administered by the Conference Board of Canada and presented to the Human Resources Working Group of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
Table of Contents
Names and Addresses of Project Participants
Chapter 1: The Poor at Risk: Surviving the Economic Crisis in Southeast Asia by T.G. McGee and Steffanie Scott
Chapter 2: Indonesia by Bakti Setiawan
Chapter 3: Thailand by Somchai Suksiriserekul
Chapter 4: Philippines by Cynthia Bautista, Leonora Angeles and Josephine Dionisio
Chapter 5: Malaysia by Sity Daud
Chapter 6: Vietnam by Vu Tuan Anh
Chapter 7: A New Architecture for Social Policy: Forward Engagement for Future Risk by T.G. McGee and Steffanie Scott
Appendix 1:
List of Participants in Policy Workshop, Bangkok, 23-25 July 2000
Appendix 2:
Government Programs / Responses to the Crisis in the Philippines
Appendix 3:
List of Sample NGO-Initiated Programs Reflecting the Range of Social Safety Nets in the Philippines