Social Welfare in East Asia and the Pacific - 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 Welfare in East Asia and the Pacific write by Sharlene B.C.L. Furuto. This book was released on 2013-02-19. Social Welfare in East Asia and the Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this singular collection, indigenous experts describe the social welfare systems of fifteen East Asian and Pacific Island nations and locales. Vastly understudied, these lands offer key insight into the successes and failures of Western and native approaches to social work, suggesting new directions for practice and research in both local and global contexts. Combining international experiences and professional knowledge, contributors illuminate the role of history and culture in shaping the social welfare systems of Cambodia, China, Hong Kong (SAR, China), Indonesia, Malaysia, the Micronesian region (including the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam [Unincorporated Territory, U.S.A.], Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands [Commonwealth, U.S.A.], and Palau), Samoa and American Samoa (Unincorporated Territory, U.S.A.), South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. The contributors link the values and issues that concern populaces most to the development of social work practice, policy, and research. Sharlene B. C. L. Furuto then conducts a comparative analysis of the essays including their data and social service programs, highlighting the similarities and differences between the evolution of social welfare in these nations and locales. She contrasts their indigenous approaches, the responses of governments and NGOs to social issues, the availability of social work education, as well as API models, paradigms, and templates, and the overall status of the social work profession. Furuto also adds a chapter comparing the distinct social welfare systems of Samoa and American Samoa. The only volume to focus exclusively on social welfare in East Asia and the Pacific, this anthology holds immense value for practitioners and researchers eager for global perspectives.
The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia
The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia - 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 The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia write by James Lee. This book was released on 2007. The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adopts a critical perspective on contemporary social welfare policies in East Asia. This volume reflects on welfare theories and challenges the dominant productivist ideology that over-emphasizes the influence of work and family.
Development, Democracy, and Welfare States
Development, Democracy, and Welfare States - 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 Development, Democracy, and Welfare States write by Stephan Haggard. This book was released on 2008-09-14. Development, Democracy, and Welfare States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comparing the welfare states of Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe, the authors trace the origins of social policy in these regions to political changes in the mid-20th century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization.
The East Asian Welfare Model
The East Asian Welfare Model - 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 The East Asian Welfare Model write by Roger Goodman. This book was released on 2006-12-05. The East Asian Welfare Model available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For many politicians and observers in the West, East Asia has provided a broad range of positive images of the state's intervention in society. Neoliberals grew excited by popular welfare systems that cost little in expenditure and bureaucracy. Social-democrats thought they had found a model for social cohesion and equality. In fact the reality in East Asia is rather different from these stereotypes. In this book six specialists of six different societies in East Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore and Hong Kong) examine the role of the state in their welfare systems. There are detailed case studies on pensions, health insurance, housing and personal social services. They provide an up-to-date detailed account of how these systems have developed as well as an examination of the question of whether these welfare regimes are the natural outgrowth of cultural traditions or the result of economic and political conditions. This broad-ranging and detailed study will be welcomed by both students and policy makers as the first proper academic study in English to have such a wide coverage of this topic. Its clarity and authority should come as a welcome alternative to the more common misconceptions about Asian society.
Social Policy and Change in East Asia
Social Policy and Change in East Asia - 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 and Change in East Asia write by James Lee. This book was released on 2013-12-11. Social Policy and Change in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book’s focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government since the 2008 financial tsunami struck the region. Together, the essays in Social Policy and Change in East Asia argue that traditional social policy approach has failed to account for the problem of economic volatility and to devise policy measures that can promote long-term stability. Avoiding a static and Eurocentric approach, the authors of this book seek to unravel the meaning of the social development approach in various policy contexts. This book supports a dynamic understanding of social policy formulation that does not neglect the problem of economic turbulence in policy and planning.
