Title: China's changing welfare mix : local perspectives /
Authors: Carrillo, Beatriz; Duckett, Jane, 1964-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Public welfare China; China Social policy.; China Economic policy.
Contents: 1. China's chaningng welfare mix: introducing the local perspective? Jane Duckett and Beatriz Carrillo -- 2. Central-local relations in social policy and the development of urban and rural social assistance programmes / Xinping Guan and Bing Xu -- 3. Dibaohu in distress: the meagre minimum livelihood guarantee system in Wuhan / Dorothy J. Solinger -- 4. Local variation in urban social assistance: community public service agencies in Dalian / Daniel R. Hammond -- 5. Life goes on: redundant women workers in Nanjing / Jieyu Liu -- 6. 'If you can walk and eat, you don't go to hospital': the quest for healthcare in rural Sichuan / Anna Lora-Wainwright -- 7. Regional disparities and educational inequalities: city responses and coping strategies / Ka Ho Mok and Yu Cheung Wong -- 8. Life considerations and the housing of rural to urban migrants: the case of Taiyuan / Bingqin Lin and Mark Duda -- 9. Older people and the (un)caring state in 'China's Manhattan' / Anna Boermel -- 10. Support for the social participation of children and young people with disability in China: a Jiangxi county case study / Karen R. Fisher, Xiaoyuan Shang and Jiawen Xie -- 11. Global discourses, national policies, local outcomes: reflections on China's welfare reforms / Sarah Cook.