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Legislating Safety Nets: Comparing Recent Social Protection Laws In Asia, Surabhi Chopra Prof.
Legislating Safety Nets: Comparing Recent Social Protection Laws In Asia, Surabhi Chopra Prof.
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
In recent years, several Asian countries have begun moving away from patchwork welfare programs toward providing more comprehensive social protection. This is a significant shift in a region where social welfare has not been politically popular, and the family has traditionally absorbed the burden of supporting the young, the old, and the ailing. Two of these states-India and Indonesia-have put new social protection initiatives into law rather than simply formulating executive policy. In this article, I examine recent social protection laws in both countries. I look in particular at India's National Food Security Law, passed in 2013, and Indonesia's laws …