China's Social Development and Policy: Into the Next Stage?

ISBN-13: 9780415642835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 262 str.

Litao Zhao

Opis

In China, social development has fallen far behind economic development. This book looks at why this is the case, and poses the question of whether the conditions, structures and institutions that have locked China into unbalanced development are changing to pave the way for the next stage of development. Based on an empirical examination of ideological, structural and institutional transformations that have shaped China's development experiences, the book analyses China's reform and development in the social domain, including pension, healthcare, public housing, ethnic policy, and public expenditure on social programs. The book moves beyond descriptive analyses to understand the role of broader changes in shaping and redefining the pattern of development in China.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: China into the Next Stage of Development  1. Society Must Be Defended: Reform, openness and social policy in China  2. China’s New Stage of Development  Part 2: Social Policy Reform Moving to the Fore  3. Issues and Options for Social Security Reform in China  4. China’s Fiscal Expenditure on Social Security since 1978  5. Healthcare Reform: Where is China heading?  6. How Successful are China’s Public Housing Schemes?  7. China’s Rapid Demographic Transition and its Challenges to Social Security System  8. Political Dynamics of Social Policy Reform in China  9. Developmentalism, Secularism, Nationalism and Essentialism: Current Situation and Challenges of the Ethnic Issue in China  Part 3: China's Social Development in a Comparative Perspective  10. The Evolving East Asian Welfare Regimes: The Case of China  11. Singapore’s Social Development Experience: Relevant Lesson for China?

O autorze

Litao Zhao is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.