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Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.

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Social service delivery for the marginalised in rural China: political will matters

  • Assistant Professor Qianjin Zhang,

China’s rapid urbanisation has contributed to increased numbers of children and elderly left without carers in rural areas.

INTRODUCTION: The politics of social policy in Asia

  • Professor Andrew Rosser,

Asia’s social welfare systems remain underdeveloped and skewed in favour of particular groups, despite rising inequality, ageing populations, labour precarity and rural-urban migration.

East Asia’s low spending model on welfare is no longer fit for tackling growing inequality

  • Dr Gyu-Jin Hwang,

Despite their economic ‘miracles’ most East Asian nations have fairly low levels of spending on welfare.

INTERVIEW: Is China’s welfare system changing and does it have capacity to care for its rapidly ageing population?

  • Professor Joshua Ka-ho Mok,

China is home to the largest population of older people in the world. How will it look after them?

《干部之国:中国如何成为中国共产党的国家》——约翰·菲茨杰拉德著

  • 作者:欧德伦博士(Dr Diarmuid Cooney-O’Donoghue),

在2022年10月召开的中国共产党第二十次全国代表大会上 …