Social welfare development in East Asia /
Comparative social policy has long neglected welfare development in Asia. Not much is known about social welfare in the economically successful East Asian tigers (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan). They are late starters in social welfare but each has its own trajectory of welfare development...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York, N.Y. [USA] :
Palgrave,
2000.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : 2000. |
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Table of Contents:
- The study of state welfare in East Asia
- East Asia and theories of comparative social policy
- The social investment state in Singapore
- Authoritarianism and the social insurance state : the case of Taiwan
- Authoritarian developmental state and social welfare in Korea
- Toward a social investment state? : social welfare development of Hong Kong
- Social welfare provisions in East Asia and quality of life
- The future of state welfare in East Asia.