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Welfare Reform in East Asia

In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as welfare-to-work or workfare. Although social welfare in Asia is very different from that in the West, with much smaller social welfare budgets, a strong self-reliance and a much higher dependency on family networks to provide support, the workfare approach is also being adopted in many Asian countries. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of how welfare reform around work is implemented in leading East Asian countries.

Based on the experiences of seven East Asian economies including China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau this book critically analyses current trends, the social, economic and political factors that lead to the implementation of workfare, and compares the similarities and differences of workfare in the different polities and assesses their effectiveness.

Chak Kwan Chan is Reader in Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Kinglun Ngok is Professor and Director of the Institute for Social Policy, China Centre for Public Administration Research, School of Government at Sun Yat-sen University, China. They recently co-authored Social Policy in China: Development and Well-Being.

Comparative Development and Policy in Asia Series

Edited by Ka Ho Mok

Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, China

Rachel Murphy

Oxford University, UK

Yongjin Zhang

Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol, UK

1 Cultural Exclusion in China

State education, social mobility and cultural difference

Lin Yi

2 Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China

Edited by Rachel Murphy

3 Changing Governance and Public Policy in East Asia

Edited by Ka Ha Mok and Ray Forrest

4 Ageing in East Asia

Challenges and policies for the twenty-first century

Edited by Tsung-hsi Fu and Rhidian Hughes

5 Towards Responsible Government in East Asia

Trajectories, intentions and meanings

Edited by Linda Chelan Li

6 Government and Policy-Making Reform in China

The implications of governing capacity

Bill K.P. Chou

7 Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond

Edited by Julia Tao, Anthony Cheung, Martin Painter and Chenyang Li

8 Welfare Reform in East Asia

Towards workfare?

Edited by Chak Kwan Chan and Kinglun Ngok

Welfare Reform in East Asia

Towards workfare?

Edited by

Chak Kwan Chan and Kinglun Ngok

This edition published 2011

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2011 Chak Kwan Chan and Kinglun Ngok for selection and editorial material. Individual chapters, the contributors.

The right of the editor to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Welfare reform in East Asia: towards workfare? / edited by Chak Kwan Chan & King Lun Ngok. 1st ed.

p. cm. (Comparative development and policy in Asia series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. East AsiaSocial policy. 2. Public welfareEast Asia. 3. East AsiaPolitics and government. I. Chan, Chak Kwan. II. Ngok, King Lun.

HN720.5.A8W454 2011

362.584095dc22

2010054105

ISBN13: 978-0-415-59026-6 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-81014-9 (ebk)

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Abbreviations

ALMP	Active labour market policies
ALSS	Active Life Service Scheme
CCT	ComCare Transitions
CCT	Conditional Cash Transfer
CDC	Community Development Council
CET	Continuing education and training
CLA	Council of Labour Affairs of Taiwan
CPF	Central Provident Fund
CSD	Census and Statistics Department
CSSA	Comprehensive Social Assistance Scheme
DGBAS	Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics of Taiwan
DPJ	Democratic Party of Japan
DPP	Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan
EATC	Employment Assistance and Training Course
EEP	Ending Exclusion Project
EIP	Employment Insurance Programme
EITC	Earned Income Tax Credit
EPM	Employment Promotion Measure of Unemployed Workers due to Plant Closure or Shutdown
EPP	Employment Promotion Programme
ERB	Employees Retraining Board
ERES	Measure of 921 Earthquake Restoration Employment Services, Vocational Training and Temporary Work Allowance
ESS	Employability Skills System
FGI	Focus group interview
FSC	Family service centre
GDP	Gross domestic product
HKSAR	Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
IEA	Intensive Employment Assistance Fund
IEAP	Intensive employment assistance project
ILO	International Labour Organization
IMF	International Monetary Fund
KMT	Kuomintang of Taiwan (Nationalist Party)
LDP	Liberal Democratic Party
MCA	Ministry of Civil Affairs of Taiwan

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