Summary

  ㅁ Title: The 8th Social Experts Meeting in Asia and the Pacific
  ㅁ Dates: 29-30 October 2013
  ㅁ Venue: the Center Mark Hotel (Seoul, Korea)
  ㅁ Hosted by OECD, OECD Korea Policy Centre(Health and Social Programme)
  ㅁ Participating parties: 20 participants from 9 countries and organizations
     ㅇ OECD member countries in Asia-Pacific: Korea, Japan
     ㅇ Non-OECD member countries: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan, Viet Nam
     ㅇ International Organizations: OECD, ADB, ILO
 

  Programme Summary

  ㅁ 21 October 2012

        Session I   / Chair : Willem Adema
         1. Welcome Remarks: Jung-mi Joo (Director General, OECD Korea Policy Centre)
         2. Effectiveness and efficiency of cash versus in-kind interventions
            - Presentation by Dominic Richardson(OECD)
         3. On measuring social protection: New data for the revised Social Protection Index
            - Presentation by Sri Wening Handayani(ADB)
         4. ILO Social Security Inquiry
            - Presentation by Krzysztof Hagemejer(ILO)


  ㅁ 22 October 2012

        Session II  / Chair : Krzysztof Hagemejer
         5. SOCX
            - Presentation by Willem Adema(OECD)
         6. Disaster relief and implications for social spending data
           - Presentation by Yukiko Miura Katsumata(Japan)
         7. Society at a Glance – Asia/Pacific edition
           - Round-the-table Discussion

        Session III  / Chair : Willem Adema
         8. Country presentations
           1) Presentation by Jongwook Won(Korea)
           2) Presentation by Suman Kumari Sharma(Singapore)
           3) Presentation by Rashad Bakhshaliyev(Azerbaijan)
           4) Presentation by Shaikh Shamsuddin Ahmed(Bangladesh)
           5) Presentation by Dwi Retno Wilujeng Wahyu Utami(Indonesia)
           6) Presentation by Zulkarnain Ahmad Hatta(Malaysia)
           7) Presentation by Tran Van Son(Viet Nam)
           8) Presentation by Saifur Rahman Sherani(Pakistan)

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