Welfare reform in East Asia : towards workfare? / edited by Chak Kwan Chan & Kinglun Ngok.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chan, Chak Kwan.

Yue, Jinglun.

Series:

Comparative development and policy in Asia series ; 8.

Comparative development and policy in Asia series ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare.

Social policy.

East Asia--Social policy.

East Asia.

Public welfare--East Asia.

East Asia--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cultural exclusion in China : state education, social mobility and cultural difference / Lin Yi

Labour migration and social development in contemporary China / edited by Rachel Murphy

Changing governance and public policy in East Asia / edited by Ka Ha Mok and Ray Forrest

Ageing in East Asia : challenges and policies for the twenty-first century / edited by Tsung-hsi Fu and Rhidian Hughes

Towards responsible government in East Asia : trajectories, intentions, and meanings / edited by Linda Chelan Li

Government and policy-making reform in China : the implications of governing capacity / Bill K.P. Chou

Governance for harmony in Asia and beyond / edited by Julia Tao, Anthony Cheung, Martin Painter and Chenyang Li

Welfare reform in East Asia : towards workfare? / edited by Chak Kwan Chan & Kinglun Ngok.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415590266

0415590264

OCLC:

663952405