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WELFARE REFORM IN EAST ASIA
TOWARDS WORKFARE |
| By: |
Chak Kwan Chan (Editor), Kinglun Ngok (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£39.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1136680063 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781136680069 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
12 November, 2012 |
| Series: |
Comparative Development and Policy in Asia |
| Pages: |
178 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
8 Line drawings, black and white; 15 Tables, black and white; 8 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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