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Providing public goods in transitional China / Tony Saich.

Title
  1. Providing public goods in transitional China / Tony Saich.
Published by
  1. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Author
  1. Saich, Tony

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Description
  1. xvi, 236 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. China's leaders are confronted with building a new support system in the countryside, shifting the burden in urban China from the factory to the local state, and integrating new social groups into existing systems. This book comprises a detailed study of healthcare, disease control, social insurance and social relief.
Subject
  1. Human services > Government policy > China
  2. Human services > Government policy
  3. Political science & theory > China
  4. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare
  5. Politics and Government
  6. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services
  7. Sozialpolitik
  8. Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Contents
  1. Public goods regimes and social welfare provision and China -- Welfare provision, 1949-1979 -- The provision of public goods during the reform period -- Challenges in the health system -- Dealing with public health crises and pandemics -- Building a new social insurance system -- Poverty relief and social assistance -- Providing social welfare: states, markets, and civil society.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-229) and index.
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