Human Resources and the Global Economic Crisis: Effective Social Safety Nets and Labor Market Policies in APEC Member Economies

In July 2010, to inform policy design and program implementation in APEC‘s inclusive and sustainable growth agenda, the HRDWG held the APEC HRD Experts Meeting on Human Resource Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis in Jakarta, Indonesia. At the meeting, APEC economies shared their responses to the global economic crisis in terms of the interventions carried out in labor market systems and social safety nets.

This report compiles some of the experiences shared at this meeting. A chapter presents a general summary, 10 case studies detail the impacts and interventions in individual APEC economies, and a research paper examines the labor market policy responses in APEC economies to the worldwide recession.

1. HRD Experts Meeting Summary
2. Australia
3. China
4. Japan
5. New Zealand
6. Papua New Guinea
7. Peru
8. The Philippines
9. Thailand
10. United States of America
11. Viet Nam
12. Labor Market Policy Responses in APEC Economies to the Worldwide Recession