The crisis of welfare in East Asia
By: edited by James Lee and Kam-wah Chan.
Contributors: Lee, James, 1950-; Chan, Kam Wah.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780739111789
Subjects: Public welfare -- East Asia; East Asia -- Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Deciphering productivism and developmentalism in East Asian social welfare / James Lee; title: Emerging issues in developmental welfarism in Singapore / Beng Huat Chua; title: Aging population in East Asia : impacts on social protection and social policy reforms in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan / Chyong Fang Ko, Kyeung Mi Oh, and Tetsuo Ogawa; title: Change and inertia in housing policy : Japanese housing system during economic crisis / Connie P.Y. Tang; title: Globalization, regime transformation, and social policy development in Taiwan / Wan I. Lin and Wen-Chi Grace Chou; title: The crisis of social security financing in Hong Kong / Raymond Man Hung Ngan; title: Age discrimination in the labor market : barriers to active aging in Hong Kong / Raymond Man Hung Ngan, Ping Kwong Kam, and Jacky Chau Kiu Cheung; title: Contradictions of welfare and the market : the case of Hong Kong / Sam Wai-kam Yu; title: Managing the SARS crisis in Hong Kong : reviving the economy or reconstructing a healthy society / Kam-wah Chan and Lai Ching Leung; title: Between idealism and realism : the evolution of full employment policy in China / Ho Lup Fung; title: The coming housing crisis of China / Ya Peng Zhu and James Lee; title: Concluding observations: Is there a crisis of welfare in East Asia? / Kam-wah Chan.