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Social service delivery for the marginalised in rural China: political will matters
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
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
Despite their economic ‘miracles’ most East Asian nations have fairly low levels of spending on welfare.
Is social policy now a well-established but ‘new’ form of economic development?
Economies such as Vietnam are growing in ways that shift economic activity to services rather than manufacturing.
Predatory political, bureaucratic and corporate elites have been a core reason for Indonesia’s learning crisis
Indonesia’s learning crisis reflects the influence of predatory political, bureaucratic and corporate elites.