Overview
Over the last 20 years, economic crises have hit the region almost every ten years. There is a need to consider not only the short-term economic rescue policy, but also the resilient infrastructure against frequent economic crisis in the long term. This project is led by JANCPEC.

What resilient infrastructures against economic crises can be established in the Pacific Region’s economies? The international project on Social Resilience will address four key areas.

Macro Analysis Theme

• More resilient economic society against crisis toward the demand-led and sustainable growth – Social Safety Net and Income:
• Does the sense of safety for the future create demand boost?
• What main reason to stimulate the Private Consumption? : The level of income, the sense of safety for the future, and the growth rate
• The adequacy of Social Safety Nets
• Does the Social Safety Net alleviate the anxiety for the future?
• Does the sufficiency of Social Safety Net expand the domestic demand?
• The influence on Global Imbalance : High dependence on exports = Low private demand → Global Imbalance

Micro Analysis (themes of work)

• The adequacy of social safety nets in the Asia-Pacific region (PECC members)
• Pension, Healthcare, Unemployment + Re-employment Education and Aging Society
• A survey of previous studies: OECD, UNESCAP, JICA, ADB, World Bank etc.
• The focus of the project is on the role of social safety nets in sustaining economic growth over the medium to long term
• The sharing of good gractices and bad practices in the Asia-Pacific Region

Project Teams

Working group 1: Modality of Pension System in the Asia-Pacific Region

Coordinator:
 

• Dr. Noriyuki TAKAYAMA (Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)\

Team Members

• Dr. Mukul ASHER (Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore)
• Dr. John PIGGOTT (Director, Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales)
• Dr. Hyungpyo MOON (Senior Fellow, Department of Public Economics and Social Development, Korean Development Institute)

Working group 2: Modality of Medicare System in the Asia-Pacific Region

Coordinator:

• Dr. Masako Ii (Professor, School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University)

Team members

• Ms. Miho SEKIMOTO (Lecturer, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
• Ms. Hiroko UCHIMURA (Research Fellow, IDE-JETRO)
• Dr. Etsuji OKAMOTO ( Doctor and Chief of management science, National Institute of Public Health)
• Dr. Yasuo UCHIDA (Emeritus Professor of Kobe University, Dean, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
• Mr. Shiko MARUYAMA (Lecturer, University of New South Wales)
• Dr. Rouselle Lavado（Research fellow, Philippine Institute for Development Studies）
• Mr. Hitoshi SHIGEOKA (Graduate student of Columbia University）

Working group 3: Modality of Unemployment Insurance system in the Asia-Pacific Region

Coordinator:

• Dr. Naoki MITANI (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University)

 Team Members:

• Dr. Yasuhito ASAMI  (Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University)
• Dr. Wen-Chi Grace CHOU (Associate Professor, Department of Labor Relations and the Institute of Labor Studies, National Chung-Cheng University, Chinese Taipei)
• Dr. Yasuhiro KAMIMURA (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University)
• Dr. Myoung-Jung KIM  (Research Fellow, NLI Research Institute)
• Dr. Ke-Jeng LAN  (Associate Professor, Department of Labor Relations and the Institute of Labor Studies, National Chung-Cheng University, Chinese Taipei) 

Macro Analysis 4: “Saving propensity and Consumption toward a demand lead and sustainable economic growth: Japan, USA and China”

• Dr. Charles Yuji HORIOKA (Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University) 
• Dr. Wataru SUZUKI (Professor, Gakushuin University)

Events

1st International Workshop, 3-5 March 2010, Tokyo

3rd National Meeting on Social Resilience, June 2010, Tokyo

19th PECC General Meeting and 2nd International Workshop on Social Resilience, October 2010, Tokyo