China S Social Welfare Revolution

Author : Jie Lei,Chak Kwan Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351999328

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China's Social Welfare Revolution by Jie Lei,Chak Kwan Chan Pdf

The Chinese government has recently adopted a radical welfare approach by contracting out social services to non-governmental organisations (NGOs). This is a big departure from its traditional welfare model, whereby all public services were directly delivered by government agencies. This book examines this new welfare approach. It analyses the implementation of various types of services for individuals, families and communities – including medical social services, care of the elderly, probation services and much more. It discusses important issues arising from contracting out, considers the nature of the contracted NGOs and their services, and explores major problems encountered by both government agencies and NGOs. This book also compares the similarities and differences of contracting policies in different cities. Overall, the book provides an overview of one of the most important welfare policy changes in contemporary China.

Author : Joe C. B. Leung,Richard C. Nann
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9622016650

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Authority and Benevolence by Joe C. B. Leung,Richard C. Nann Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive account of social welfare developments in the People's Republic of China, from the 'iron rice bowl' social security system established as an intrinsic part of the Chinese Communist regime to fundamental welfare changes brought about by current efforts to modernise China.

Author : Joe C. B. Leung,Yuebin Xu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745690476

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China's Social Welfare by Joe C. B. Leung,Yuebin Xu Pdf

The extraordinary rise of China is one of the greatest global stories of recent times. However, China's development has been described as ‘uneven, uncoordinated, and unsustainable’, and has now reached a critical turning point. To transform itself into a successful high-income economy, China urgently needs to develop a new welfare regime. Social policy and social welfare programmes are pivotal not only to meet mounting social needs but also to promote social cohesion. This timely book explores key turning points in China’s trajectory, from the creation of a socialist egalitarian society promising a relatively stable livelihood at the expense of economic development, through the market-oriented reforms which have dismantled the traditional social protection system. The authors present the formidable social challenges ahead, including demographic shift, residential migration, and corrosive inequalities, and outline the emerging forms of social security protection in urban and rural areas, community-based social care services, non-governmental organizations and the social work profession. To redress inequalities and strengthen social cohesion, China needs to construct a robust developmental and redistributive strategy with shared responsibility between different levels of governments, as well as between civil society, the state and the market. This comprehensive and astute guide to one of China’s key current challenges will be welcomed by students and scholars of social policy, welfare, sociology and political science, and all interested in contemporary China.

Author : Nara Dillon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175581

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Radical Inequalities by Nara Dillon Pdf

"The Chinese Communist welfare state was established with the goal of eradicating income inequality. But paradoxically, it actually widened the income gap, undermining one of the most important objectives of Mao Zedong’s revolution. Nara Dillon traces the origins of the Chinese welfare state from the 1940s through the 1960s, when such inequalities emerged and were institutionalized, to uncover the reasons why the state failed to achieve this goal.Using newly available archival sources, Dillon focuses on the contradictory role played by labor in the development of the Chinese welfare state. At first, the mobilization of labor helped found a welfare state, but soon labor’s privileges turned into obstacles to the expansion of welfare to cover more of the poor. Under the tight economic constraints of the time, small, temporary differences evolved into large, entrenched inequalities. Placing these developments in the context of the globalization of the welfare state, Dillon focuses on the mismatch between welfare policies originally designed for European economies and the very different conditions found in revolutionary China. Because most developing countries faced similar constraints, the Chinese case provides insight into the development of narrow, unequal welfare states across much of the developing world in the postwar period."

Author : China Development Research Foundation
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136828102

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Constructing a Social Welfare System for All in China by China Development Research Foundation Pdf

China Development Research Foundation is one of the leading economic think tanks in China, where many of the details of China’s economic reform have been formulated. Its work and publications therefore provide great insights into what the Chinese themselves think about economic reform and how it should develop. This book sets out the general objectives, principles and framework of a proposed new social welfare system for China, putting forward relevant policy recommendations. It provides a comprehensive overview of China’s current welfare services, including retirement pensions, education, health, employment, housing and social security payments, and goes on to cost the proposed new social welfare system and assess the government’s capacity for implementing it. It shows how the new system will, within an integrated framework, provide comprehensive welfare for all, including rural and urban citizens, migrant workers and disadvantaged groups such as rural and urban poor. It also shows how the new system will aim to balance economic and social development whilst maintaining China’s high economic growth rate, increasing domestic demand and promoting economic restructuring.

Author : Lijun Yang,Dongtao Qi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814730983

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Social Development And Social Policy: International Experiences And China's Reform by Lijun Yang,Dongtao Qi Pdf

Social policy reforms driven by profound social changes have been a popular and pressing topic worldwide in recent years in both policy and academic circles. In this book, prominent social policy scholars from Europe, North America, and Asia discuss the history of social policies, compare different social development models, and analyze the challenges facing these economies' social policy reforms. The book provides comprehensive and comparative perspectives and updated data on social development and social policy reforms in the world's major economies, and particularly, in mainland China.

Author : Jean-Marc Blanchard,Kun-Chin Lin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137022851

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Governance, Domestic Change, and Social Policy in China by Jean-Marc Blanchard,Kun-Chin Lin Pdf

This book constitutes the first comprehensive retrospective on one hundred years of post-dynastic China and compares enduring challenges of governance in the period around the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 to those of contemporary China. The authors examine three key areas of domestic change and policy adaptation: social welfare provision, local political institutional reform, and social and environmental consequences of major infrastructure projects. Demonstrating remarkable parallels between the immediate post-Qing era and the recent phase of Chinese reform since the late-1990s, the book highlights common challenges to the political leadership by tracing dynamics of state activism in crafting new social space and terms of engagement for problem-solving and exploring social forces that continue to undermine the centralizing impetus of the state.

Author : Keerty Nakray,Zhang Yi,John Clammer,Wenjuan Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811961243

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Social and Economic Transitions in China and India by Keerty Nakray,Zhang Yi,John Clammer,Wenjuan Zhang Pdf

This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels. Discussions are made based on impacts from the social and economic changes in the last century and the fourth industrial revolution on welfare state transformations in China and India, the world's two largest countries in terms of population and density. First-hand empirical work is conducted by a group of scholars from India and China, which draws on inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural academic traditions to deepen social, cultural and legal understanding between the two countries. This book would appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in comparative sociology, political science, law and comparative welfare studies as well as researchers in these fields, as well as researchers in policy think-tanks and research institutes and officials in government and non-governmental organizations.

Author : Linda Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134786350

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Marginalization and Social Welfare in China by Linda Wong Pdf

This book provides a systematic analysis that defines and accounts for the contours and operation of China's welfare system. It is underpinned by recent empirical research and strong comparative theory, and will be welcomed as a significant advance in furthering our understanding of social welfare in China.

Author : Keqing Han
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813296602

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Social Welfare in Transitional China by Keqing Han Pdf

At a time of significant transformations in Chinese society, this book addresses the key issue of social welfare and the reform of the welfare system in 21st century China. Considering both the theory and policy making across a variety of welfare issues which directly impact on the country’s economic development, it examines the development of civil society, changes in social stratification and in social class structure. It notably considers the key questions of welfare in both urban and rural settings, for different population groups such as children, the elderly and the disabled, addressing topical issues of housing, education, public health, poverty and the restructuring of related welfare policy system to tackle China’s key issues. It also considers the impact of migrant workers in China and their social integration, including within the welfare system. Providing a unique insight into how economic globalization and financial crisis affects Chinese social welfare policies, this book is a key read for scholars worldwide interested in social transformation in Chinese society at a time of significant social and economic transition.

Author : Hong Zhou,Jun Zhang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811046698

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Towards a Society with Social Protection for All by Hong Zhou,Jun Zhang Pdf

This book systematically reviews the development of social policy since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. As such, it begins by investigating the establishment of the Insurance System in the early period, then moves on to the planned economy period, the Cultural Revolution period, and the Reform and Opening Up period, characterized by efforts to adapt to a market economy. For each period, the book examines the effect of the economic system, the mode of production and forms of employment for social policy design, so as to clarify the developing context of Chinese social policy, and to help readers grasp the legal aspects of social policy development and the main problems China faces in its present economic developmental stage.

Author : Douglas Besharov,Karen Baehler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199990337

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Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition by Douglas Besharov,Karen Baehler Pdf

The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country's equally dramatic, though not always equally successful, social policy transition. Between the mid- 1990s and mid-2000s---the focal period for this book---China's central government went a long way toward consolidating the social policy framework that had gradually emerged in piecemeal fashion during the initial phases of economic liberalization. Major policy decisions during the focal period included adopting a single national pension plan for urban areas, standardizing unemployment insurance, (re)establishing nationwide rural health care coverage, opening urban education systems to children of rural migrants, introducing trilingual education policies in ethnic minority regions, expanding college enrolment, addressing the challenge of HIV/AIDS more comprehensively, and equalizing social welfare spending across provinces, among others. Unresolved is the direction of policy in the face of longer-term industrial and demographic trends---and the possibility of a chronically weak global economy. Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition offers scholars, practitioners, students, and policymakers a foundation from which to explore those issues based on a composite snapshot of Chinese social policy at its point of greatest maturation prior to the 2007 global crisis.

Author : Joshua Eisenman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231546751

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Red China's Green Revolution by Joshua Eisenman Pdf

China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study, Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the commune modernized agriculture, increased productivity, and spurred an agricultural green revolution that laid the foundation for China’s future rapid growth. Red China’s Green Revolution tells the story of the commune’s origins, evolution, and downfall, demonstrating its role in China’s economic ascendance. After 1970, the commune emerged as a hybrid institution, including both collective and private elements, with a high degree of local control over economic decision but almost no say over political ones. It had an integrated agricultural research and extension system that promoted agricultural modernization and collectively owned local enterprises and small factories that spread rural industrialization. The commune transmitted Mao’s collectivist ideology and enforced collective isolation so it could overwork and underpay its households. Eisenman argues that the commune was eliminated not because it was unproductive, but because it was politically undesirable: it was the post-Mao leadership led by Deng Xiaoping—not rural residents—who chose to abandon the commune in order to consolidate their control over China. Based on detailed and systematic national, provincial, and county-level data, as well as interviews with agricultural experts and former commune members, Red China’s Green Revolution is a comprehensive historical and social scientific analysis that fundamentally challenges our understanding of recent Chinese economic history.

Author : Sheying Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Aged
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019787287

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Social Policy of the Economic State and Community Care in Chinese Culture by Sheying Chen Pdf

A study of community care and social policy that compares the Western and Chinese experiences. The book begins with a theoretical analysis of Western community care and a review of Western welfare models.

Author : Cecilia L. W. Chan,Yongxin Zhou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016324001

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More Welfare After Economic Reform? by Cecilia L. W. Chan,Yongxin Zhou Pdf