Financing Welfare State Systems in Asia

"As Christian Aspalter points out, the majority of the world’s population lives in Asia, but most of its welfare states are understudied. They are also rarely compared. Aspalter’s newest book, Financing Welfare States in Asia, is an ambitious and impressive effort to fill this gap. The book brings together experts on East, South and Southeast Asia as well as Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, to author ten comparative case studies of welfare systems from the late 1980s to the present...Overall, the individual case studies are excellent and the comparative approach contributes greatly." Linda J. Cook, Brown University, USA.

"This is a long-awaited distinctive book on the construction and further development of Asian welfare state systems in general and welfare state system finance in particular. The inclusion of welfare state systems that is seldom found in international publications is a great bonus. While welfare states systems in developed countries are facing retrenchment, welfare state systems in Asia, under modernization and democratization pressures, witness in most cases rapid expansion. Despite the diversity in Asian development, the proposed normative theory of the developmental social policy framework offers strong appropriate reference for policymakers, and social policy teachers and students." Joe C.B. Leung, The University of Hong Kong.