Welfare Reform in East Asia : Towards Workfare Paperback / softback
Edited by Chak Kwan Chan, Kinglun (Sun Yat-Sen University, China) Ngok
Part of the Comparative Development and Policy in Asia series
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:188 pages, 15 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/10/2013
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- ISBN:9780415728379
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:188 pages, 15 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/10/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415728379