Social Policy in Post-Industrial Singapore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Policy in Post-Industrial Singapore write by Kwen Fee Lian. This book was released on 2008-03-27. Social Policy in Post-Industrial Singapore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contributors to this edited volume, covering a range of social issues ranging from family and aging to sexuality and culture and the arts, critically examine the relevance of social policy as it is understood in the West; and addresses the question of whether Singapore's response is unique.
China's Social Development and Policy
China's Social Development and Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China's Social Development and Policy write by Litao Zhao. This book was released on 2013-07-18. China's Social Development and Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In China, social development has fallen far behind economic development. This book looks at why this is the case, and poses the question of whether the conditions, structures and institutions that have locked China into unbalanced development are changing to pave the way for the next stage of development. Based on an empirical examination of ideological, structural and institutional transformations that have shaped China’s development experiences, the book analyses China’s reform and development in the social domain, including pension, healthcare, public housing, ethnic policy, and public expenditure on social programs. The book moves beyond descriptive analyses to understand the role of broader changes in shaping and redefining the pattern of development in China.
Social Development And Social Policy: International Experiences And China's Reform
Social Development And Social Policy: International Experiences And China's Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Development And Social Policy: International Experiences And China's Reform write by Dongtao Qi. This book was released on 2016-10-27. Social Development And Social Policy: International Experiences And China's Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore
Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore write by Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun. This book was released on 2012-07-26. Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between seemingly neutral policy incentives and the perceived and experienced disparate effects. Drawing on a substantial number of personal interviews and focus groups, the book analyzes the developmental welfare state’s overarching emphasis of citizen responsibility, and examines population policies that reinforce social inequalities and ignore cultural diversity. These factors combine to undermine elaborate state policy efforts in encouraging citizens’ biological reproduction. The book goes on to argue that in order to facilitate positive fertility decisions, the state needs to modify the “economic production at all cost” approach and pay much more attention to the importance of social rights. This suggests that the Singapore government might profitably approach the phenomenon of very low fertility with major initiatives similar to those of other advanced industrialized societies. This book offers a significant contribution to the literature on social policy, East Asian and Southeast Asian studies.
Art and the City
Art and the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and the City write by Jason Luger. This book was released on 2017-05-18. Art and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a global perspective on the political agency of arts in place. International and leading scholars and artists themselves present critical theory and practice of contemporary art as a politicised force. This book extends thinking on contemporary arts practices in the urban and political context of protest and social resilience and offers the prism of a ‘critical artscape’ in which to view the urgent interaction of arts and the urban politic.
