Towards a New Poverty Agenda in Asia

Download or read book Towards a New Poverty Agenda in Asia written by Arjan de Haan and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the role of social policy in the context of globalization and rapidly changing economies and societies in Asia. It compares the social policy experience of a number of countries with a focus on comparing East Asian (China, Indonesia, Vietnam), and South Asian (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) models and experiences. In comparing the way social policy has evolved and studying its effects in various countries of Asia, the author provides a wide canvas and succeeds in bringing out similarities as well as differences in the individual experiences, while simultaneously providing explanations. His research brings together three separate streams of study in its scope—politics, sociology and economics—to analyze the ground reality of Asian experiences.