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This book describes the role of social policy in the context of globalization and rapidly changing economies and societies in Asia. It compares the social policy experience of a number of countries with a focus on comparing East Asian (China, Indonesia, Vietnam), and South Asian (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) models and experiences.
Over the last decade, particularly since the Asian financial crisis, and globalization, extension of social protection to people affected by crisis has been the main theme in national and international policy alike. In comparing the way social policy has evolved and studying its effects in various countries of Asia, the author provides a wide canvas and succeeds in bringing out similarities as well as differences in the individual experiences, while simultaneously providing explanations. His research brings together three separate streams of study in its scope—politics, sociology and economics—to analyze the ground reality of Asian experiences.
Globalization: All Boats Rising or Growing Divides?
Globalization: All Boats Rising or Growing Divides?
The period since the mid-1950s has witnessed both unprecedented increases in global wealth and rapidly rising disparities. The 1950s and 1960s was a period of general optimism and economic growth, even though at the end of the period development economists like Chenery argued for more attention to poverty reduction and inequality. The 1970s and 1980s came to be known as the lost development decades, but at the same time saw the East Asian success stories, including the rise of China, which became the single most important driver of global poverty and inequality trends, followed by the sustained high growth in India. Finally, recent years have seen economic growth return to Africa, though ...
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