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Social Welfare Development in East Asia

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  1. Kwong-leung Tang
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Study of State Welfare in East Asia

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    Pages 1-18

  3. East Asia and Theories of Comparative Social Policy

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    Pages 19-37

  4. The Capital Investment State of Singapore

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    Pages 38-63

  5. Authoritarianism and the Social Insurance State: The Case of Taiwan

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    Pages 64-88

  6. The Authoritarian Developmental State and Social Welfare in Korea

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    Pages 89-112

  7. Toward a Capital Investment State? The Social Welfare Development of Hong Kong

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    Pages 113-134

  8. Social Welfare Provisions in East Asia and Quality of Life

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    Pages 135-155

  9. The Future of State Welfare in East Asia

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    Pages 156-174

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 175-214
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About this book

Comparative social policy has long neglected welfare development in Asia. Not much is known about social welfare in the economically successful East Asian tigers (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan). They are late starters in social welfare but each has its own trajectory of welfare development. Despite the presence of extensive social welfare, they have shied away from western-style welfare states. The presence of strong developmental states and their development ethos explain in large part the underdevelopment of state welfare.

About the author

KWONG-LEUNG TANG is an Associate Professor in the College of Arts, Social and Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. His academic interests include Asian social development, law and social policy, and comparative social policy. He is the co-author of Models of Workplace Training: Lessons from the Employees Retraining Scheme in Kong-Kong (with J.Cheung). His last authored book Colonial State and Social Policy was published in 1998.

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