To ward off social ills, the region has tended to rely instead on youthful populations, bountiful growth and dutiful families. Yet as Asian countries have grown richer, older and less autocratic, their governments have responded to a rising demand from citizens for welfare, including pensions, health insurance and antipoverty schemes, such as subsidised food, public works and even cash handouts. The Asian Development Bank has tried to summarize their efforts in a single indicator, the social-protection index, published this week. The index shows both the breadth of coverage (the percentage of potential beneficiaries actually covered) and the depth (the amount of spending per beneficiary, expressed as a percentage of the country's GDP per person).

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