Poverty Monitoring and Alleviation in East Asia.

Intro -- POVERTY MONITORING AND ALLEVIATION IN EAST ASIA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION:POVERTY MONITORING ANDALLEVIATION IN EAST ASIA: AN OVERVIEW -- DEVELOPMENTAL IDEOLOGY AND POVERTY -- POVERTY IN EAST ASIA: SIX COUNTRY REPORTS -- POVERTY MONITORING AND ALLEVIATION - COMMON THEMES -- COMPETING APPROACHES TO POVERTY ALLEVIATION -- POVERTY ALLEVIATION: SOME CONSIDERATIONS -- REFERENCES -- POVERTY AND ANTIPOVERTYPOLICIES IN URBAN CHINA -- PATTERNS OF URBAN POVERTY WORLDWIDE ANDCHINA'S CHARACTERISTICS: A THEORETICAL MODEL -- Pattern one: Urban Poverty in an Underdevelopment Environment -- Pattern Two: Urban Poverty in Affluent Societies -- Pattern Three: Urban Poverty in Circumstances of Rapid Economic Growth -- Pattern Four: Urban Poverty in Transitional Economies -- THE STUDY OF URBAN POVERTY IN CHINA -- POVERTY IN CONTEMPORARY URBAN CHINA:THE DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT OF URBAN POVERTY -- Indicators Measuring Urban Poverty -- Operational Definition of Urban Poverty: Absolute vs. Relative Concepts -- Poverty Lines and Poverty Rates -- THE CONSTITUTION AND FEATURES OF CHINA'S URBAN POVERTY -- Constitution of the Urban Poverty Groups -- Some Features of the New Urban Poor -- LIFE SITUATION OF THE URBAN POOR -- Family Income -- Daily Life -- Education, Health and Housing -- Social Life -- EXPLANATIONS FOR THE URBAN POVERTY PROBLEM -- Economic Factors -- The Micro Level -- The Meso Level -- Changes in Economic Systems -- Development of a Foreign-oriented Economy -- Changes in Urban Industrial Structures and Urban-rural Economic Relations -- The Macro Level -- ECONOMIC STRUCTURE TRANSITION -- Social Factors -- Changes in the Social Policy Systems -- Basic Goods Provision for Subsistence -- Pensions -- Health Care -- Education -- Housing -- Social Assistance -- General Trends in Social Protection.

The Changed Philosophical Basis and Goals of the Welfare System -- ANTIPOVERTY POLICIES IN URBAN CHINA -- Employment Services -- The Three "Security Lines" -- Unemployment Insurance -- Living Allowance for Laid-Off Workers -- Minimal Living Security (MLS) -- ANTIPOVERTY ACTIONS IN EDUCATION,HEALTH CARE AND HOUSING -- Education -- Health Services -- Housing -- SOME FURTHER PROBLEMS IN ANTIPOVERTY POLICIES -- How to Include Floating Labor in the Urban Social Protection System -- How to Deal with Social Exclusion -- Antipoverty Strategy after Entry into the WTO -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- POVERTY MONITORING AND ALLEVIATION:THE CASE OF TAIWAN -- ABSTRACT -- CHANGES IN POVERTY RATES DURING THE PAST TEN YEARS -- Official Statistics -- Relative Poverty and Income Inequality -- Explanation of the Trend Towards Income Inequality -- ANTIPOVERTY POLICIES DURING THE LAST TEN YEARS -- The Development of Antipoverty Policies -- Government Social Welfare Spending -- THE EFFECT OF GOVERNMENTTRANSFERS ON POVERTY REDUCTION -- THE PROSPECTS FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION -- Protecting Economic Security for the Elderly -- Tackling Social Exclusion and Social Polarization -- REDEFINING FAMILY UNITS -- Concerning Welfare Rights of Ethnic Groups -- REFERENCES -- POVERTY, VULNERABILITY AND THE EXPANSION OFDISCIPLINARY WELFARE IN HONG KONG -- INTRODUCTION -- THE POVERTY DISCOURSE AND ITS LEGACY -- Poverty Discourse in the 1960s -- Poverty Discourse in the 1970s -- The Discourse of Vulnerability and Disadvantage in the 1980s and 1990s -- Income Disparity and the Poverty Debate -- The Huge Disparity of Income -- Poverty Measurement and Poverty Prevalence -- CSSA and the Magnitude of Poverty -- Poverty among Non-CSSA Recipients -- State Strategy and Poverty Alleviation -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- POVERTY MONITORING ANDALLEVIATION IN SINGAPORE -- THE POOR IN SINGAPORE.

POVERTY MONITORING -- Statistical Monitoring2 -- Monitoring in Practice -- Poverty Alleviation -- Approach -- MEASURES ON EMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY -- SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SCHEMES -- Cash Assistance -- Food -- Housing and Utilities -- Healthcare -- Impact of Poverty Alleviation Activities and Prospects -- REFERENCES -- POVERTY AND ANTI-POVERTYMEASURES IN SOUTH KOREA -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL INSURANCE IN KOREA -- SOCIAL INSURANCE PROGRAMS -- Employment Insurance -- National Pension -- Health Insurance -- Industrial Accidents Compensation Insurance -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE -- Livelihood Protection System -- NATIONAL BASIC LIVELIHOOD SECURITY SYSTEM -- Change from Gifts to Rights -- Abolition of Demographic Eligibility Criteria -- Introducing a Concept of Affirmed Household Incometo Rationalize Income and Property Criteria -- Introduction of Work Incentives and Self-Reliance -- SOME ISSUES OF THE NATIONAL BASICLIVELIHOOD SECURITY SYSTEM -- FUTURE OF THE NATIONAL BASIC LIVELIHOOD SECURITY SYSTEM -- REFERENCES -- POVERTY MONITORING AND ALLEVIATION IN JAPAN -- INTRODUCTION -- THE QUESTION OF POVERTY IN JAPAN -- FACTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE POOR IN JAPAN -- The Homeless -- Who They Are -- Policy Response to the Problem of the Homeless -- POVERTY DERIVING FROM DISCRIMINATION -- Discrimination Based on Origin -- Discrimination on the Basis of Sex -- Discrimination Based on Disability or Old Age -- LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS -- HOUSEHOLDS RECEIVING PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (SEIKATSU HOGO) -- The Depopulated Areas -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- POVERTY ALLEVIATION:A RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH -- INTRODUCTION -- INSTITUTIONAL JUSTIFICATION -- Governmental Obligations -- Governmental Commitments -- NORMATIVE JUSTIFICATION -- Liberal Justification -- Confucian Justification -- Feminist Justification -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE ILO'S APPROACH TO POVERTY ALLEVIATION.

INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL JUSTICE MANDATE -- CONVENTIONS AND STANDARDS -- BASIC NEEDS APPROACH -- PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY -- AN ASSESSMENT -- RECENT CHANGES -- GLOBALIZATION AND THE ILO -- REFERENCES -- POVERTY AND THE SOCIALDEVELOPMENT APPROACH -- INTRODUCTION -- KEY CONCEPTUAL PREMISES -- Social Development and Social Change -- Social Development and Social Intervention -- Universalism and Inclusivity in Social Development -- Harmonizing Social and Economic Policies and Programs -- KEY DEVELOPMENTAL POVERTY ALLEVIATION INTERVENTIONS -- Individual and Group Level Interventions -- Human Capital Programs -- Employment and Employment Placement Programs -- Asset Accounts -- Micro-Credit and Micro-Enterprise Policies and Programs -- Community Level Interventions -- Community Development Programs and Projects -- Community Action -- Social Capital and Community Economic Development -- National Level Interventions -- Planning and State Intervention -- Developmental Social Service Provision -- Employment Creation Policies -- Income Guarantees and Subsidies -- Affirmative and Anti-discriminatory Employment Policies -- THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT -- REFERENCES -- AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF POVERTY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EXTERNAL ANALYSES OF INSTITUTIONS IN POVERTY STUDY -- WHAT DOES AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF POVERTY MEAN? -- INSTITUTIONS AS AN EXPLANATION OF POVERTY -- FROM EXTERNAL TO INTERNAL ANALYSIS OFINSTITUTIONS FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION -- THE CHANGES IN THE RULES OF THEGAME AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THE POOR -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- GLOBAL SOCIAL PROTESTS:AN ANSWER TO WORLD POVERTY? -- INTRODUCTION -- A String of Global Protests -- GLOBALIZATION AND NEO-LIBERALISM -- THE MEANING OF GLOBAL SOCIAL PROTESTS -- SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY AND GLOBAL PROTESTS -- GLOBAL SOCIAL PROTESTS: A POLANYIAN INTERPRETATION.

RELEVANCE OF "DOUBLE MOVEMENT" ANALYSIS -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

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