Welfare Reform in East Asia: Towards Workfare

by Chak Kwan Chan

Book Overview

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 to 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415728371
• ISBN13: 9780415728379
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"