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Title

The new social policy agenda in Asia : proceedings of the Manila Social Forum.

Author

Manila Social Forum (1999) : Manila, Philippines)

Publication

Manila : Asian Development Bank ; [Washington D.C.?] : World Bank, [2000]

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Additional Authors

• Asian Development Bank
• World Bank

Description

xvii, 234 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This memorandum requests the immediate reallocation of a total of SDR8.1 million (US$ , 1115 million equivalent) of Credit proceeds under eight operations to support the SARS and Infectious Diseases Response Program (hereafter referred to as the "Program"). The objective of the Program is to: (1) address emergency needs for W&S-related diagnosis, clinical management, and personal protection that are necessary to bring the current epidemic fully under control; and (2) support the Government's efforts to strengthen the capacity of the public health system more generally so that China's health system is prepared to combat the possible re-emergence of SARS and, equally important, similar infectious disease threats that might occur in the future. There are 3 program components: Component 1 supports program planning, coordination, and policy development activities. Component 2 supports clinical management of SARS patients including setting up fever clinics, renovating designated SARS hospitals and wards, training female and male health care workers, strengthening personal protection measures for health care workers, providing emergency supplies, undertaking regular supervision, and carrying out operational research. Component 3 supports disease prevention and control, with a focus on SARS and other infectious diseases including strengthening disease surveillance and case reporting. The eight operations comprise: the Environmental Technical Assistance Project (report no. P6056), the Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation Project (report no. 12593), the Yangtze Basin Water Resources Project(report no. 13674), the Southwest Poverty Reduction Project (report no. 13968), the National Rural Water Supply Project (report no. 16380), the Basic Health Services Project (report no. 17403), the Fourth Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (report no. 19226), and the Enterprise Reform Project (report no. 19300). In all cases the reallocations would neither compromise the original objectives nor the economic viability of the eight projects concerned. The respective Development Credit Agreement for each of the eight operations, listed will be amended to add a new component covering activities to be carried out under the SARS and Infectious Diseases Response Program and to enable Credit proceeds to be used to fund the activities. For activities that will be carried out by provinces, agreements will be entered into with each province for the carrying out of such activities using the proceeds of the Credit.

Subject

Asia > Social policy > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Held Nov. 9-12, 1999.
• "August 2000."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Foreword: Fighting Poverty Unites / Tadao Chino -- Acknowledgments / Shoji Nishimoto and Julian Schweitzer -- Economic Growth, Social Development, and Poverty Reduction in Asia / H. E. Joseph E. Estrada -- Operational Lessons and Challenges for Social Development in Asia / Jean-Michel Severino -- Financial and Economic Crisis in Asia: Causes and Long-term Implications / Justin Lin -- Deeper Crisis: Social Consequences of the Financial Crisis in Asia / Ernesto M. Pernia -- Beyond the Asian Crisis: The Centrality of Social Policy / Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo -- Migration and Regional Interdependencies: The Labor Market in Lao PDR / Noy Indavong -- Social Priorities and the Labor Market in Uzbekistan / Aleksandr S. Novotnly -- Employment Policies in the Republic of Korea After the Crisis / Hanam S. Phang -- Increasing Urban Employment in Shanghai: Active Labor Market Programs and Other Initiatives / Zhang Dezhl -- Concept of Social Exclusion and Vulnerability / Anita Kelles-Viitanen -- Challenges in Addressing Gender Concerns in the Asian Economic Crisis / Patricia Licuanan -- Women and Civil Society in a Crisis Environment: Examples from Cambodia / Sochua Mu-Leiper -- Vulnerability and Reverted Gender Issues in Education and Health / Pagbajabyn Nymadawa -- Vulnerability of Homeworkers in Southeast Asia / Lucita Lazo -- Children as Losers in Economic Development: Strategies and Policies to Promote the Best Interests of Children in East and Southeast Asia / Kanchada Piriyarangsan -- Reforms of State-owned Enterprises and Social Protection in the People's Republic of China / Chen Qunzhou -- Citizens' Network to Address Urban Poverty in Thailand / Somsook Boonyabancha -- Rural Development Policies for Poverty Alleviation in Viet Nam / Le Hong Thai -- Microfinance and the Rural Poor: Some Reality Checks in Indonesia / Em. Haryadi
• Credit Unions as Alternative Banking Institutions: The Experience of the Kyrgyz Republic / Ainura Kyptchakbaeva -- Poverty Reduction at the Beginning of the New Millennium: Challenges for the PRC / Zhang Lei -- When Does Agrarian Reform Work for the Filipino Poor? / Horacio Morales -- Falling Through Safety Nets and Building on Pillars of Social Protection: Summary of Panel and Workshop Discussions at the Manila Social Forum / John Blomquist -- Emerging Lessons on Social Safety Nets / Emmanuel Jimenez -- Social Protection and the Asian Development Bank / Isabel Ortiz -- Social Risk Management: The World Bank's New Conceptual Framework for Social Protection / Robert Holzmann -- Public Works Programs for Managing the Economic Crisis in the Republic of Korea / Po-hi Pak -- Which Poor to Help? Coordinated Poverty Alleviation in the Philippines / Donna Gasgonia -- Social Sector Reforms in Asia After the Crisis: Operational Lessons / Katherine Marshall -- Local Governments' Expenditures for Social Services Delivery / Benjamin Diokno -- Block Grants to Reform the Education and Health Sectors in Indonesia / Hidayat Syarief -- Cambodia's Health Situation, Policy Reforms and Investment Implications / Char Meng Chuor -- Reforming Social Sectors and Reducing Poverty: Two Different Issues in Mongolia / Sodov Sonin -- Labor Market Relevant Education Reforms in the Kyrgyz Republic / Melisbek Satybekov -- Thailand's New Twelve Years of Education for All Program / Chuachan Chongsatityoo -- Role of the Private Sector for Poverty Reduction and Social Development in Asia / Christine Wallich -- Corporate Responsibility for Social Development in the Philippines / Roberto de Ocampo -- Public-Private Partnerships in Health and Education: Conceptual Issues and Options / Yidan Wang -- Promoting Business for Poverty Reduction: An Example from the Philippines / Paul Dominguez
• Economic and Social Impediments to Small Industry Development in Uzbekistan / Klara Djumuratova -- Socially Responsible Investment: How to Make it Possible / Amy Domini -- Good Governance for Poverty Reduction: An Introduction / Katherine Marshall -- Governance and Anticorruption: A Hopeful Realism / Salvatore Schiavo Campo -- Fighting Corruption to Help the Poor / Tunku Abdul Aziz -- Social Impact of Governance Reforms in Mongolia / Davaadorjiin Delgertsorgt -- Local Governments and National Poverty Alleviation Programs in the Philippines / Jesse Robredo -- Increasing Transparency of Government-Sponsored Poverty Projects in Indonesia Through Community-Based Information / Hetifah Sjaifudian -- What Can NGOs Do to Enhance Economic Development Benefiting the Poor in the Philippines / Teresita Quintos Deles -- Monitoring Foreign Aid: Governance Challenges for Poverty Reduction in Thailand / Nontaphon Nimsomboon -- ^
• New IMF Architecture in Asia / Peter S. Heller -- Weapons or Well-Being? East Asia's Most Important Choice for the New Millennium / Kul Gautam -- Sustainable Development: New Milestones for Asia / Terence Jones -- ADB and World Banks Vision of a New Social Partnership in Asia / Peter Sullivan and Mats Karlsson.

ISBN

9715613004

LCCN

^^^99504391^

OCLC

45184227

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library