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Social welfare development in East Asia / Kwong-leung Tang.
Van Pelt Library HN720.5.A8 T36 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tang, Kwong-Leung.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare.
- Social policy.
- East Asia--Social policy.
- East Asia.
- Public welfare--East Asia.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 214 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York, N.Y. [USA] : Palgrave, 2000.
- Summary:
- 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. Despite the presence of extensive social welfare, they have shied away from Western-style welfare states. The presence of strong developmental states and their development ethos explain in large part the underdevelopment of state welfare.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312234864
- OCLC:
- 43457963
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