Welfare Capitalism in East Asia: Social Policy in the Tiger Economies

✍ Scribed by Ian Holliday, Paul Wilding

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 220
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Social Policy has been a key dimension of dynamic economic growth in East Asia's 'little tigers' and is also a prominent strand of their responses to the financial crisis of the latte 1990s. This systematic comparative analysis of social policy in the region focuses on the key sectors of education, health, housing and social security. It sets these sectoral analyses in wider contexts of debates about developmental states, the East Asian welfare model and globalization.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figure and Tables......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on Usage......Page 10
Notes on the Contributors......Page 11
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
1 Welfare Capitalism in the Tiger Economies of East and Southeast Asia......Page 14
Why the interest in East and Southeast Asian welfare capitalism?......Page 16
Social policy analysis and the East Asian welfare model......Page 18
Moving beyond the East Asian welfare model......Page 23
Analytical approach......Page 24
What is to come......Page 28
Basic data......Page 31
Hong Kong......Page 35
Singapore......Page 38
South Korea......Page 40
Taiwan......Page 42
Social policy processes......Page 44
Assessing similarity and difference......Page 47
3 Education......Page 50
History and basic orientation......Page 51
Regulation......Page 57
Provision......Page 67
Funding......Page 73
Assessment......Page 77
Brief country descriptions......Page 82
History and basic orientation......Page 83
Regulation......Page 91
Provision......Page 97
Funding......Page 101
Assessment......Page 105
Brief country descriptions......Page 110
5 Housing......Page 112
History and basic orientation......Page 113
Regulation......Page 119
Provision......Page 125
Funding......Page 129
Assessment......Page 134
Brief country descriptions......Page 139
History and basic orientat......Page 141
Regulation......Page 147
Provision......Page 154
Funding......Page 162
Assessment......Page 165
Brief country descriptions......Page 172
Similarities and differences......Page 174
Debating the East Asian welfare model......Page 185
Tiger social policy and welfare capitalism in the twenty-first century......Page 193
Bibliography......Page 196
Name Index......Page 214
Subject Index......Page 218