Welfare, Work, and Poverty
Subtitle: Social Assistance in China
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780190218133
Subjects: Public welfare, china; China, social conditions
Description: "Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides a systematic evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assistance program--Minimum Livelihood Guarantee, or Dibao--since its inception in 1993. Dibao serves the dual function of providing a basic safety net for the poor and maintaining social and political stability. Despite currently being the world's largest welfare program in terms of population coverage, evidence on Dibao's performance has been lacking. This book offers important new empirical evidence and draws policy lessons that are timely and useful for both China and beyond." -- Provided by the publisher