Financing Welfare State Systems in Asia

This book identifies the main causes of welfare state system extension, as well as the differences in welfare state system design and their consequences for human behaviour and future financial stability of the systems in place in different parts of Asia.

List of contents

Foreword. Part 1: Introduction. 1. Telling the Untold Story of Explosion, Stagnation and Continuation of Welfare State System Financing in Asia: An Introduction. Part 2: Theoretical Part. 2. A Pas De Trois in Social Policy Theory: Understanding the Financing of Welfare State Systems. Part 3: Case Studies. 3. Financing the Welfare State System in Russia. 4. Financing the Welfare State System in Turkey. 5. Financing the Welfare State System in Saudi Arabia. 6. Financing the Welfare State System in India. 7. Financing the Welfare State System in Thailand. 8. Financing the Welfare State System in Mainland China. 9. Financing the Welfare State System in Hong Kong. 10. Financing the Welfare State System in Macao. 11. Financing the Welfare State System in Taiwan. 12. Financing the Welfare State System in South Korea. Part 4: Concluding Part. 13. Income Polarity and the End of Social Insurance: A Concluding Note.

About the author

Christian Aspalter is Professor of Social Policy and former Founding Head of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College in Zhuhai, China. His recent publications include Ideal Types in Comparative Social Policy (Routledge, 2020), “Welfare Regime Analysis: 30 Years in the Making” (International Social Work, 2019), The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems (Routledge, 2017), Development and Social Policy: The Win-Win Solutions of Developmental Social Policy (co-editor, Routledge, 2017), Health Care Systems in Developing Countries in Asia (co-editor, Routledge, 2017), Active Aging in Asia (co-editor, Routledge, 2015), Social Work in East Asia (Routledge, 2014), as well as Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia (coeditor, Routledge, 2012).

Summary

This book identifies the main causes of welfare state system extension, as well as the differences in welfare state system design and their consequences for human behaviour and future financial stability of the systems in place in different parts of Asia.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Aspalter, Christian (Beijing Normal University-Hon Aspalter, Christian (Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University Aspalter
• Assisted by: Christian Aspalter (Editor), Aspalter Christian (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780367902773
• ISBN: 978-0-367-90277-3
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Social Policy in Modern Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Asia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Social Work, Politics & government, Social issues & processes, Politics and government, Social and ethical issues, Development Studies