Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Politics and Policy in China's Social Assistance Reform: Providing for the Poor?

Politics and Policy in China's Social Assistance Reform: Providing for the Poor?

Hammond, Daniel R.

Paperback

Series: Edinburgh East Asian Studies

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1474474667
ISBN13: 9781474474665
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Aug 25 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Every day in the People's Republic of China 70 million people receive help from the state through the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao). What began as a reform in the city of Shanghai in the early 1990s is now a key component in the measures used by the Communist Party of China to maintain social stability and legitimacy. While scholars regularly discuss how effective dibao has been in alleviating poverty very little addresses what influenced its development. This book argues that in order to understand dibao we need to look at how the programme emerged and how it has developed in the years since. Drawing on newspaper articles, government reports and interviews with key officials and researchers, the book also addresses debate on the policy process in China as a whole.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

General Political Science

View All