Introduction Financed by public fund and based on citizenship rights, social assistance is a
meanstested programme where eligibility is dependent on a test of income. To address the …

Innovation is now commonplace in public service organizations around the globe.
Innovation is used to create public value in citizen collaborations, through civil society and …

One of the main components of the so-called welfare states is Public Pension Systems,
whose analysis provides an image of a country's politics, economy, demographics and …

This dissertation is an attempt to understand the politics of welfare inclusion and exclusion in
an authoritarian developing country—China. This dissertation empirically focuses on the …

The concept of multi-pillar pension systems can be considered a prime example of
transnational policy diffusion. This dissertation combines a historical institutional approach …

Many developing countries have reformed their national pension systems in response to
ageing populations and to increase pension scheme participation. The World Bank has …

In the decades since 1978 when the Third Plenum of the 11th Central Committee agreed to
both reform China's economy and open up to the outside world, both central and local …

Since the outset of the economic and social reforms in 1978, rural China has been
undergoing fundamental changes in view of the relationship between the state, society and …

A question of great interest to China watchers is whether or not central mandates are
successfully implemented, and how. The issues surrounding this question are at the heart of …

For over 40 years (1978–2019), China succeeded in sustaining rapid economic growth and
achieved large-scale reduction in poverty—before pausing due to the 2020 Covid-19 …