Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2011.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Statistical Partners -- Guide for Users -- Abbrevations and Acronyms -- Highlights of Key Indicators 2011 -- PART I: SPECIAL CHAPTER: Toward Higher Quality Employment in Asia -- Introduction and Background -- What is Higher Quality Employment? -- Why is the Quality of Employment Important? -- Patterns and Trends in the Quality of Employment -- Broad Trends -- Selected Experiences -- Lessons in Developing Asia -- Selected Interventions to Promote Higher Quality Employment -- Trade and Globlization -- The Role of Migration -- Raising Rural Labor Productivity -- Human Capital -- Active Labor Legislation -- Labor Unions -- Social Protection -- Right-To-Work and Employment Guarantees -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: Cross-Country Regression Models Of Poverty Changes and Formalization Of Employment -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Appendix Tables -- Appendix Table 1 Countries and Period Spells -- Appendix Table 2 OLS Estimates of Cross-Country Changes in Poverty Incidence and the Ratio of Top 20% to Bottom 20% -- Tables -- Table 1 Per Capita GDP and Labor Force Statistics, by Region -- Table 2 Labor Force Statistics for Selected Developing Asian Economies (most recent year) -- Table 3 Distribution of Labor Force by Status of Employment in Selected Asian Economies (%) -- Table 4 Summary Statistics (most recent years) -- Table 5 Distribution of Workers by Category of Employment (%), India, 1972-2004 -- Table 6 Distribution of Workers by Type of Employment and Economic Activity (%), India, 1999 and 2004 -- Table 7 Classification Table (based on most recent year of data available) -- Figures -- Figure 1 Distribution of Workers by Employment Status and by Geographical Region -- Figure 2 Distribution of Workers by Sector of Employment and by Geographical Region.

Figure 3 Population Reporting Job Attributes as Important in Selecting a Job, by Per Caita GDP, 2000-2008 -- Figure 4 Population Reporting the Most Important Attributes in Selecting a Job, By Country/Region, 2000-2008 -- Figure 5 Cross-Country Relationship Between Changes in Poverty and Changes in Employment Status, 1990-2009 -- Figure 6 Well-Being of Workers by Employment Status in Advanced Economies and Worldwide, 2009-2010 -- Figure 7 Change in the Share of Total Employment by Employment Status, Selected Developing Asian Economies -- Figure 8 Change in the Sectoral Share of Employment, Selected Developing Asian Economies -- Figure 9 Informal Sector Employment in Latin America and Asia, 1980-2008 -- Figure 10 Percent of Total Employment by Employment Status and Real Per Capita GDP, 2000-2008 -- Figure 11 Percent of Informal Employment and Per Capita GDP, Developing Asian Economies, 2000-2008 -- Figure 12 Unemployment Rate (%), Selected Asian Economies, 2007-2010 -- Figure 13 Vulnerable Employment as a Share of Total Employment (%), 2008 and 2010 -- Figure 14 Evolution of Real Average Wages of Workers in the Formal Sector, 2001-2010 -- Figure 15 Annual Growth of Labor Productivity and Wages (%), Selected Asian Economies, 2000-2010 -- Figure 16 Value Added per Worker, Banten and Yogyakarta (Rp million) -- Figure 17 Shares of Employment in Agriculture, Public, and Private Industrial Sectors -- PRC -- 1978-2008 -- Figure 18 Employment and Real Wages of Urban Migrants, PRC, 2001-2010 -- Figure 19 Share of Informal Employment in Total Employment -- Urban PRC -- 2001, 2005, and 2010 -- Figure 20 Job Quality, Security, and Employment Securiy among Migrants and Local Workers, Urban PRC, 2010 -- Figure 21 Share of Employment by Sector, Indonesia, 1993-2009 -- Figure 22 Informal and Formal Employment Rates (%), Indonesia, 1993-2010.

Figure 23 Informal Employment Rates by Gender (%), Indonesia, 1993-2010 -- Figure 24 Informal Employment Rates by Residence (%), Indonesia, 1993-2009 -- Figure 25 Average Real Monthly Wage of Employees by Gender (Rp '000), Indonesia, 1993-2009 -- Figure 26 Sectoral Share of Total Employment, Philippines, 1983-2009 -- Figure 27 Share of the Self-Employed, Regular Employees, and Casual Labor in Total Employment, Philippines, 1988-2008 -- Figure 28 Unemployment Rate in Selected ASEAN Countries, 1980-2009 -- Figure 29 Unemployment and Underemployment Rates, Philippines, 1980-2009 -- FIgure 30 Trends in Real Labor Productivity in Special Economic Zones and All Other Cities PRC, 1960-2003 -- FIgure 31 Trends in Prices in Special Economic Zones and All Other Cities PRC, 1988-2001 -- Figure 32 Working Conditions in Open versus Closed Non-Asian Economies -- Figure 33 Labor Rights in Open versus Closed Non-Asian Economies -- Figure 34 Working Conditions in Open versus Closed Asian Economies -- Figure 35 Labor Rights in Open versus Closed Asian Economies -- Figure 36 Value Added per Worker in Agriculture, Industry, and Services, Selected Asian Economies, 2009 -- Boxes -- Box 1 Employment and Benefits of Workers: Armenia, Bangladesh, and Indonesia -- Box 2 Labor Market Changes: Sectoral Shifts and the Creation of Decent Jobs in the Republic of Korea -- Box 3 Informal Employment and Poverty -- Box 4 Outsourcing Industrial Production to Small Rural Enterprises in Meiji Japan -- Box 5 Demographic Change and the Quality of Employment -- Box 6 Information Technology in India -- Box 7 Migrant Workers from the Philippines -- Box 8 Technical and Vocational Education and Training -- Box 9 India's Small-Scale Industry Reservations -- Box 10 The Minimum Wage in Indonesia -- Box 11 The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and the Wonjin Rayon Company -- Box Tables.

Box Table 6.1 Employment in Information Technology Services, India, 1999-2008 -- Box Table 7.1 Selected Statistics on Migrant Workers from the Philippines -- Box Figures -- Box Figure 1.1 Type of Worker ('0,000) -- Box Figure 1.2 Benefits Received by Formal and Informal Wage Workers -- Box Figure 2.1 Share of Jobs by Industry as a Percentage of Total Labor Force -- Box Figure 2.2 Share of Decent Jobs as a Percentage of Total Labor Force -- Box Figure 2.3 Share of Salaried and Wage Workers as a Percentage of Total Labor Force -- Box Figure 3.1 Poverty Incidence by Nature of Employment -- Box Figure 5.1 Dependency Ratios of Major Developing Asian Countries, 2000-2030 -- Box Figure 10.1 Minimum Wage, Median Wage, and Mean Wage -- Indonesia -- 1997-2009 -- Box Figure 10.2 Non-Compliance with the Minimum Wage, Indonesia, 1997-2009 -- Box Figure 10.3 Non-Compliance with the Minimum Wage by Sector, Indonesia, 1993-2009 -- Box Figure 10.4 Non-Compliance with the Minimum Wage by Educational Attainment, Indonesia, 1993-2009 -- PART II: Millennium Development Goals -- Introduction to the Millennium Development Goals -- Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger -- Table 1.1 Target 1.A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day -- Table 1.2 Target 1.B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people -- Table 1.3 Target 1.C: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger -- Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education -- Table 2.1 Target 2.A: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling -- Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women.

Table 3.1 Target 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education not later than 2015 -- Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality -- Table 4.1 Target 4.A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate -- Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health -- Table 5.1 Target 5.A: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio -- Table 5.2 Target 5.B: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health -- Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases -- Table 6.1 Target 6.A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS -- Table 6.2 Target 6.B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it -- Table 6.3 Target 6.C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases -- Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability -- Table 7.1 Target 7.A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources -- Table 7.2 Target 7.B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss -- Table 7.3 Target 7.C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation -- Table 7.4 Target 7.D: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers -- Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development -- Table 8.1 Target 8.D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term -- Table 8.2 Target 8.F: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications.

Millennium Development Goals-Figures.