Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia: Education, Health, Housing and Income Maintenance

by M. Ramesh

Book Overview

Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on the provision and financing arrangements of these four Asian newly industrialized economies and their outcomes in terms of adequacy, efficiency and equity, drawing on extensive primary research carried out by the author...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415332559
• ISBN13: 9780415332552
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"