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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.
International Development and Social Policy
International Development and Social Policy
While national policy traditions have continued to be crucial for social policy in the South, international development debate and practices have become increasingly important, through more invasive forms in aid-dependent countries and during economic crises, but also, for example, through the opening up of China and Vietnam, which made international development cooperation part of its reforms. Moreover, after a period of aid fatigue, there has been recent optimism about the role of international development. Well-organized civil society pressure and reform attempts within international organizations have led to significant initiatives around debt relief and commitments for increased aid, highlighted in the agreements at Gleneagles and the Monterrey Consensus, and reaffirmed by many at the time of the ...
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