Financing and provision of long-term care is an increasingly important concern for many
middle-income countries experiencing rapid population aging. We examine three countries …

Globalization is a key context for the study of social determinants of health (SDH): broadly
stated, SDH are the conditions in which people live and work, and that affect their …

Is Brazil's economic policy regime a mere tinkering of the Washington Consensus? The
evidence suggests that Brazilian governments institutionalized a hybrid policy regime that …

The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and
activists to warn that it leads to a'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of …

South Korea proactively introduced public long-term care insurance (LTCI) in 2008 when
older people were only about one-tenth of the total population. At that time, Korea switched …

Abstract The Republic of Korea is experiencing a rapidly aging population with increased
life expectancy and lowered fertility. National health insurance has provided universal …

Numerous analysts have suggested that globalization and the emergence of more
knowledge-based economies have encouraged high-income nations to shift towards a …

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic has catapulted China into a serious social and political
crisis. This article focuses upon how Chinese social policy has responded to the Covid-19 …

Drawing on theories of institutional evolution, this article contends that despite the centrality
of occupationally based social insurance in postwar Korea and Taiwan (and thus the …

This study aimed to investigate the return connectedness between Sukuk and green bonds
at the middle, left and right tail using the new quantile-based connectivity methodology from …