1. Introduction: exclusions, deficits and trajectories
2. Shocked-induced poverty in Urban China
3. Social protection and the economic well-being of families with dependent children in Urban China
4. Gender, work and security in Urban China: the reconstruction of identity as laid-off worker
5. Social protection and market reforms in Vietnam
6. Social security for Rural Migrant workers in China: current coverage, institutional design and policy suggestions
7. Reading the signposts: social protection for home based women's workers in South Asia
8. Approaching basic and economic security for informal workers through national and local initiatives case studies of home based Workers in South East Asia
9. Women's vulnerability, risk and social protection: An exploration of links between property ownership and domestic violence in South Asia
10. Food security at the local level: aa study I contrast between kerala and orissa in India
11. Targeting in social protection programmes the experience of Indonesia
12. Crafting a graduation pathway for the Ultra poor: lessons and evidence from a BRAC programme in Bangladesh

This volume deals with issues of poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion in the Asian context.
This book will interest scholars of economics, politics, development studies, development economics, sociology, social policy, and South Asian studies.

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