Social Protection in East Asian
Chinese Societies
Despite its impressive economic growth, East Asia is facing daunting challenges in mitigating its social problems, including chronic poverty and worsening social inequality. The past decade has seen growing scholarly interest in the development of East Asian social policies not only because of the sheer size of the population and its global impact, but also due to the stark contrast between this regions economic prosperity and the ongoing issue of severe social inequality. This book presents a collection of studies on aspects of social protection in East Asian Chinese societies, including Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Contributions by leading social policy scholars working in and on the region aim to promote scholarly understanding of the pressures facing social protection systems in East Asia, identify existing gaps and emerging social policy issues and review the effectiveness of existing programmes. The evidence presented and insights generated will promote further debate and facilitate meaningful comparative social policy studies in the region and beyond.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Asian Public Policy.
Peter Saunders is one of Australias foremost experts on poverty, social inequality and social security and has published extensively on these topics nationally and internationally. He is currently the President of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security and in 20152016 was a member of the World Bank Commission on Global Poverty.
Alex Jingwei He is Associate Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. He specializes in health policy and governance and social policy reforms with a particular focus on East Asian Chinese societies.
Social Protection in East Asian
Chinese Societies
Challenges, Responses and Impacts
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Peter Saunders and Alex Jingwei He
First published 2018
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in various special issues of the Journal of Asian Public Policy. When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Social protection in East Asian Chinese societies: challenges, responses and impacts
Peter Saunders and Alex Jingwei He
Journal of Asian Public Policy, volume 10, issue 2 (July 2017), pp. 121127
Chapter 1
The undeserving poor in China: the institutional logic of the minimum living standard scheme and the hukou system
Kristian Kongshj
Journal of Asian Public Policy, volume 10, issue 2 (July 2017), pp. 128142
Chapter 2
Equity, efficiency and effectiveness: an evaluation study of the urban minimum livelihood guarantee scheme in China
Yu Guo, Yuanyuan Fu, Ernest Wing Tak Chui and Mei Xue
Journal of Asian Public Policy, volume 10, issue 2 (July 2017), pp. 143157
Chapter 3
Can Chinas new rural social pension insurance adequately protect the elderly in times of population ageing?
Jikun Tao
Journal of Asian Public Policy, volume 10, issue 2 (July 2017), pp. 158166
Chapter 4
New intergenerational contracts in the making? The experience of urban China
Xiaohui Zhong and Bingqin Li
Journal of Asian Public Policy, volume 10, issue 2 (July 2017), pp. 167182
Chapter 5
An examination of food insecurity among economically disadvantaged youths in Taiwan
Kate Yeong-Tsyr Wang and Li-Ching Lyu
Journal of Asian Public Policy, volume 10, issue 2 (July 2017), pp. 183197
Chapter 6
Child poverty and its impacts on social exclusion in Taiwan
He-chiun Liou
Journal of Asian Public Policy, volume 10, issue 2 (July 2017), pp. 198215
Chapter 7
Understanding social security trends: an expenditure decomposition approach with application to Australia and Hong Kong
Peter Saunders
Journal of Asian Public Policy, volume 10, issue 2 (July 2017), pp. 216229
Chapter 8
Signposting disadvantage social exclusion in Hong Kong
Peter Saunders, Wong Hung and Wong Wo Ping
Journal of Asian Public Policy, volume 7, number 1 (2014), pp. 317
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Notes on Contributors
Ernest Wing Tak Chui is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong.
Yuanyuan Fu is a PhD Student at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong.
Yu Guo is a Lecturer at the School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China.
Alex Jingwei He is Associate Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong.
Wong Hung is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Kristian Kongshj is a Postdoctoral Student at the Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies (CCWS), Denmark and Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC), Aalborg University, Denmark.
Bingqin Li is Associate Professor and Director of the Chinese Social Policy Program at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia.
He-chiun Liou is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work at Asia University, Taiwan.
Li-Ching Lyu, MPH, PhD, is a Professor in the Program of Nutritional Science and Education at the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan.
