This paper examines the Macau welfare model. Having experienced a structural shift in its economic development, establishing a Casino-based economy, Macau has yet to develop an adequate social security system. This paper examines the history, and particularly the recent period since the Handover...

This paper analyses past developments and future challenges of welfare state systems in Japan and China, comparing the two countries history in constructing and adapting their welfare state systems. The paper uses the concept of welfare state systems to better reflect particularistic features of...

An area of study that is relatively neglected by comparative welfare state experts is the comparison of health care systems. Since the early 1990s, health care systems in Europe have experienced a myriad of changes, just like pensions systems, their counterpart. The systems of health care...

Today, we understand that the comparative study of welfare state systems, and in particular social security systems, is not developed a great deal in global perspective. But it is also true that the existing body of knowledge on comparative study of welfare state systems is out of date, even in...

This article sets out to strengthen and extend the theoretical, and hence practical, concept of social development. In the last few years, the functions of and methods applied social development policies are increasing. This particular study advances the new concept of a more people-centered...

This paper sets out to discuss the new organizing concept of the human capital welfare state (a special type of a social investment welfare state). It starts with the beginning of new organizing principles for the welfare state of the last one or two decades, such as the Third Way in the United...

Since the ideologically coloured meaning of the 'welfare state', implying a massive level of redistribution and high government spending in the field of social policy, does not match the reality of a number of today's welfare state systems, especially outside Europe, this article examines the...

This study examines the nature and variations of welfare state systems in Northeast Asia, taking the examples of Japan, South Korea and Mainland China. While parting from the very popular and dominating classification of welfare states of Esping-Andersen, this article proposes the existence of...

This article aims to outline main features of the East Asian welfare model, to understand its past development and assess lessons that can be learned for other developing and developed countries. It describes the particular path of welfare state development in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong...

This paper shortly addresses the potentials of Developmental Social Policy when applying it to the realm of health policy, and the apparent need for doing so. Developmental Social Policy is a normative (prescriptive) social policy theory that offers strategies and policy solutions to prevent and...