Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Turn to the Market -- 1 The Triumph of the Market -- 2 Business Moves: Markets, Nations, and Inequality -- 3 Disposable Workers -- 4 The Low-Wage, Low-Skill Strategy -- Part II: The Path Upward? -- 5 Education: Choice, Profit, and...

This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty alleviation experience and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal logic and core elements of China's poverty...

This book brings together analysis and insights from high-level Chinese policy-makers and prominent international scholars in addressing the key challenges China is facing in maintaining rapid growth and achieving the Government's stated goal of creating a harmonious society. It analyzes such...

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Theoretical Framework -- 2 Sustainable Development in Taiwan and China -- 3 Sustainable Development Programs and Experiments -- 4 Directions for Future Study -- Conclusion --...

Cover -- Title Page -- Colophon -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 -- Modernization, human biology, and a tale of two domains -- Chapter 2 -- The labor market bias of the welfare state literature -- Modernization and the origins of thewelfare state literature -- Power resources and political...

Using data from 17 high-income nations covering a 25-year span to 2005, this in-depth study systematically analyzes the links between inequality and poverty among immigrant populations marginalized by welfare systems under growing budgetary constraints.

This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world. It emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and...

Architects of Austerity argues that the seeds of neoliberal politics were sown in the 1950s and 1960s. Suggesting that the postwar era was less socially democratic than we think, Aaron Major presents a comparative-historical analysis of economic policy in the United States, the United Kingdom,...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Saving in Low-Income Households -- 1. Research on Matched Savings in Low-Income Households -- 2. Theory and Evidence on Saving in Low-Income Households -- 3. Setting the Stage: Economic Socialization and Coming-of-Age in a Working-Poor Family...