Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Overview -- Section I: The Impact -- The impact of the world recession on Indonesia and an appropriate policy response: Some lessons for Asia -- Impacts of the economic crisis in East Asia: Findings from qualitative monitoring in five countries -- Social impact of commodity price volatility in Papua New Guinea -- Assessing social outcomes through the Millennium Development Goals -- Section II: Labor and Gender -- The impact of the global economic slowdown on value chain labor markets in Asia -- Global meltdown and informality: An economy-wide analysis for India-Policy research brief -- The social impact of the global recession on Cambodia: How the crisis impacts on poverty -- Women facing the economic crisis-The garment sector in Cambodia -- No cushion to fall back on: The impact of the global recession on women in the informal economy in four Asian countries -- Gender and social protection in Asia: What does the crisis change? -- Section III: Migration and Remittances -- The impact of the global slowdown on the People's Republic of China's rural migrants: Empirical evidence from a 12-city survey -- Urban-rural and rural-urban transmission mechanisms in Indonesia in the crisis -- The global financial crisis and agricultural development: Viet Nam -- Impact of the global recession on international labor migration and remittances: Implications for poverty reduction and development in Nepal, Philippines, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan -- Section IV: Responses -- Global crisis and fiscal space for social protection -- Addressing unemployment and poverty through infrastructure development as a crisis-response strategy -- Fiscal space for social protection policies in Viet Nam -- The global economic crisis: Can Asia grasp the opportunity to strengthen social protection systems?.

Income support in times of global crisis: An assessment of the role of unemployment insurance and options for coverage extension in Asia -- Financial crisis and social protection reform-Brake or motor? An analysis of reform dynamics in Indonesia and Viet Nam -- Reforming social protection systems when commodity prices collapse: The experience of Mongolia -- The impact of the global recession on the health of the people in Asia -- The impact of the global recession on the poor and vulnerable in the Philippines and on the social health insurance system -- Implications of economic recessions on quality, equity, and financing of education -- Section V: The Environments of the Poor -- Impact of the global recession on sustainable development and poverty linkages -- Green growth, climate change, and the future of aid: Challenges and opportunities in Asia and the Pacific -- Measuring the environmental impacts of changing trade patterns on the poor -- Poverty, climate change, and the economic recession -- Alternative energy options of Asia in crises -- List of Boxes -- Box 1: Philippines: Monitoring poverty and social protection -- Box 2: Bangladesh -- Box 3: Uzbekistan -- Box 4: Projecting the poverty impact of the recession -- Box 5: Thailand's automotive industry -- Box 6: Impact on women: Field studies -- Box 7: Pakistan -- Box 8: The Philippines' electronics sector -- Box 9: Informing the health systems reform agenda: The role of an Asia-Pacific observatory -- Box 10: Health security: Thailand.