Welfare Reform in East Asia
Chak Kwan Chan, Kinglun Ngok
In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "welfare-to-work" or "workfare". Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with much smaller social welfare budgets, a strong self-reliance and a much higher dependency on family networks to provide support, the workfare approach is also being adopted in many Asian countries. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of how welfare reform around work is implemented in leading East Asian. Based on the experiences of seven East Asian economies - including China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau - this book critically analyses current trends; the social, economic and political factors which lead to the implementation of workfare; compares the similarities and differences of workfare in the different polities and assesses their effectiveness.
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Година:
2013
Издателство:
Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
Език:
english
Страници:
192
ISBN 10:
0415590264
ISBN 13:
9782010054105
Серия:
Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
Файл:
EPUB, 1.06 MB
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english, 2013