Author : Chak Kwan Chan
Release : 2012-11-12
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 055/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Welfare Reform in East Asia by : Chak Kwan Chan

Download or read book Welfare Reform in East Asia written by Chak Kwan Chan. This book was released on 2012-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.