China is joining the group of countries that have reasonably comprehensive systems of social protection in place. In 2010, the National Peopleś Congress adopted the first national Social Insurance Law, representing the culmination of a process of radical social reform. The question this paper...

This paper discusses the social policy consequences of the exceptional economic decline in Finland in the 1990s. It asks what happened to the Finnish welfare state in these exceptional economic conditions, and consequent political problems. It describes Finland’s economic performance in a...

China is joining the group of countries that have reasonably comprehensive systems of social protection in place. In 2010, the National People´s Congress adopted the first national Social Insurance Law, representing the culmination of a process of radical social reform. The question this paper...