LEADER 03857oam 2200709I 450 001 9910778055703321 005 20230207230408.0 010 $a1-135-25565-2 010 $a1-135-25566-0 010 $a1-282-25694-7 010 $a9786612256943 010 $a0-203-87409-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203874097 035 $a(CKB)1000000000773559 035 $a(EBL)446711 035 $a(OCoLC)449187535 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000247580 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11191148 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247580 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10199948 035 $a(PQKB)10777784 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC446711 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL446711 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10326774 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL225694 035 $a(OCoLC)437143004 035 $a(OCoLC)872691806 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000773559 100 $a20180706d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSocial policy and poverty in East Asia $ethe role of social security /$fedited by James Midgley and Kwong-leung Tang 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge research on public and social policy in Asia 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-66718-6 311 $a0-415-43485-8 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction and context; Introduction: Poverty and social policy responses in East Asia; 1 The role of social security in poverty alleviation: An international review; Part II Country case studies: Social security in East Asia; 2 The emergence of social assistance in China: Challenges and issues; 3 Social assistance programmes in Singapore; 4 Korea's national basic livelihood programme and social development; 5 Welfare-to-work reform in Hong Kong: Overview and prospects 327 $a6 Rural social protection in China: Reform, performance and problemsPart III Innovations and issues of social policy and poverty in East Asia; 7 Building assets for the poor in Taiwan: Policy innovation from income to assets; 8 From microcredit to microinsurance: Creating social security where there is none; 9 The social investment fund of Thailand: New intermediaries for local development; 10 Knowledge of public policy and the perceived positive impact of the welfare benefits system 327 $a11 Social security, housing policy and asset-building: The relevance of home ownership for elderly income protection in Hong KongIndex 330 $aThis book looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the ongoing challenge of poverty in East Asia despite the region's spectacular experience of economic growth in decent decades. The East Asian miracle resulted over the last four decades in a transformation of the region's traditional agrarian economies and significant increases in standards of living for many ordinary people. Even though it was given little attention, poverty has remained an ongoing problem. The problem became particularly evident however with the Asian financial crisis of 1997 when 410 0$aRoutledge research on public and social policy in Asia. 606 $aSocial security$zEast Asia 606 $aPoverty$zEast Asia 607 $aEast Asia$xSocial policy 615 0$aSocial security 615 0$aPoverty 676 $a362.5/561095 676 $a362.5561095 701 $aMidgley$b James$0247746 701 $aTang$b Kwong-Leung$0854858 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778055703321 996 $aSocial policy and poverty in East Asia$93732132 997 $aUNINA