Bücher der Reihe Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia

Looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the challenge of poverty in East Asia despite the region's experience of economic growth. This book analyses how social security programs can and do contribute to poverty alleviation in Asia.

Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong SAR are among the very lowest-fertility countries in the whole world. This book offers an analysis of trends in fertility, what we know about their determinants and consequences, the policy issues and how these are being addressed in the various countries.

Investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to low-income people in Asia, particularly the region's developing countries. This book features a number of case studies covering South Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Mongolia, Indonesia and Japan.

This book brings together work on the low fertility countries of East Asia with an analysis of trends in fertility, what we know about their determinants and consequences, the policy issues and how these are being addressed in the various countries.

Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this book examines the social, economic, and political issues that have arisen with the influx of foreigners in Singapore since the turn of the 21st century. It draws on empirical research documenting the impact of migration on Singapore and provides scholarly analysis of the longer-term implications of these trends, with each chapter covering a different aspect of socio-cultural, political, or economic outcome arising from intercultural contact and adaptation.

This book examines welfare regimes in the Greater China region, encompassing mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In so doing, it explores the ways in which the rapid growth and internationalisation of the economy across Greater China is presenting new social policy challenges that governments, social welfare organizations and agencies in the region are having to respond to, and the contributors add to our understanding of how one of the major economic transformations of the contemporary era in East Asia is shaping welfare provision in the region.