In the 1970s, as the now compact, mature economies in East and Southeast Asia were
industrializing, their governments had claimed that they saw no need for the kind of welfare …

The future development of social welfare in Hong Kong is hard to predict. On 1 July 1997,
the colony was transformed into a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's …

As an Asian late industrializer, Hong Kong has shared many common characteristics with its
counterparts in their welfare system, such as low government spending on welfare …

The welfare states 1 in East Asia have undergone significant changes since the Asian
economic crisis of 1997-8. New social programmes were introduced and existing ones were …

East Asia's welfare states have evolved over the past forty years from a bare structure with
few social security programmes into fairly comprehensive systems. Prior to the crisis of the …

Comparative social policy has long neglected welfare development in Asia. Not much is
known about social welfare in the economically successful East Asian tigers (Hong Kong …

Hong Kong has experienced the historic transfer from a British colony to a special
administrative region of China in 1997 and faced the challenges of Asian economic crisis in …

From the 1970s through to the early 1990s Hong Kong had one of the most vibrant and fast-
growing economies in the world. This came to an end in October 1997 with the Asian …

Abstract This article integrates East Asia into the larger welfare state canon and situates the
analysis in terms of common global challenges. Explaining East Asia's 'exceptionalism' …

Many full-fledged studies in social science on welfare states were conducted in Western
European countries (Wilensky, 1975; Flora and Heidenheimer, 1981; Flora et al., 1986) …