There is extensive research on the roles played by states and organized women in broader
processes of change like transition, but the connections between these two groups of actors …

Since the late 1980s, there has been a growth of academic interest in social policy in the
East Asian tiger economies–Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Four main …

The aims of this paper are threefold. The first aim is to provide a critique of the reform
proposal of the Harvard School of Public Health for Hong Kong's health care system through …

The social welfare system in Hong Kong is widely acknowledged as rather residual in
nature, where social policies are meant for the unfortunate few who happen to be least able …

While many East Asian economies have in the past witnessed the coexistence of economic
growth and modern welfare provisions, this has no longer been the case since the Asian …

This paper first gives an overview of the healthcare financing system in Hong Kong and then
briefly explicates the reasons for reforming the existing financing system. It argues that the …

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This dissertation studies the social participation of the Hong Kong churches from 1966 to
1997 in order to refute the accusations brought against the Hong Kong churches by …

This study provides an empirical investigation of the Korean immigrants' experiences of
welfare services in Australia. It seeks to examine two important underlying questions: what …

This dissertation is concerned with political power. Political power, as conceptualized here,
coalesces around certain governing structures, diffuses through institutions of …