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...

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 study looks at the state of social development in developing countries, particularly in East Asia, applying a qualitative cum quantitative method, that is, a multiple case study analysis combined with social indicator analysis (hence applying method triangulation), with the aim to study the...

This book debates the leading social development paradigm in social policy, that of developmental social policy from a self-evaluative and critical perspective. It contains two theory chapters and case study analysis from countries in Asia. It is a must read for any scholar in development...