Welfare Reform in East Asia

Towards Workfare
Herausgeber: Kwan Chan, Chak; Ngok, Kinglun

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how social welfare in handled in leading East Asian countries, analysing current trends, explaining the social and political background driving reform, describing new programmes and assessing their effectiveness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780415728379
• ISBN-10: 0415728371
• Artikelnr.: 39702392

Autorenporträt

Chak Kwan Chan is Reader in Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Kinglun Ngok is Professor and Director of the Institute for Social Policy, Centre for Public Administration, School of Government at Sun Yat-sen University, China. They recently co-authored Social Policy in China: Development and Well-Being.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. Understanding Workfare in Western and East Asian
Welfare States Part 2: Workfare in Seven East Asian Economies 2. Workfare
in Mainland China: A Reaction to Welfare Dependency? 3. Workfare in Hong
Kong 4. From Workfare to Cash for All: The Politics of Welfare Reform in
Macau 5. Workfare in Taiwan: From Social Assistance to Unemployment
Absorber 6. Workfare in Japan 7. Workfare in South Korea: Delivering
Unemployment Benefits in the Developmental Welfare State 8. Workfare in
Singapore Part 3: Conclusion 9. Workfare in East Asia: Development &
Characteristics