Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the...

Overview of social welfare in East Asia and the Pacific / Sharlene B.C.L. Furuto -- China's changing social welfare / Minjie Zhang -- Understanding social welfare in South Korea / Jun Sung Hong ... [et al.] -- Social welfare in Hong Kong: colonial legacy and challenges for the HKSAR / Venus...