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East Asian social policy in the wake of the financial crisis

Farewell to Productivism

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ID6327451
AuthorsIan Holliday (Department of Public and Social Administration City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume33
Issue1
Pages145-162
Publication date2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442
PublisherBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/0305573052708465
OpenAlexW2058644426
LanguageEN
Citations received75
References cited22

English For some years, a productivist strand characterised debates about a possible East Asian welfare model. However, recent policy initiatives, prompted partly by the Asian financial crisis and partly by far wider economic, social and political changes, cast doubt on the continuing validity of the productivist thesis in an East Asian context. This article reviews the evidence, and argues that while social policy has some nonproductivist tendencies in South Korea and Taiwan in particular, they are not as substantial and significant as is sometimes held. It concludes that it is not yet time to discard productivism, which remains plausible and useful in analysing social policy systems in the region

China · Context (archaeology · Development economics · East Asia · Economics · Economy · Financial crisis · Geography · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social policy · Welfare · Employment and Welfare Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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