Welfare Reform in East Asia - Towards Workfare (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	2011
Editors:	Chak Kwan Chan • King Lun Ngok
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	188
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-72837-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-72837-1
Barcode:	9780415728379

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