Despite its centrality to the experience of death and grief, it is only in recent years that the economic burden following family bereavement has been recognised by social care professionals and scholars. Based on the realisation that death and bereavement are grounded in social context, and...

The welfare regime in East Asia has long been characterized as a 'residual welfare state.' Yet, recent development also suggests that welfare systems in these countries have experienced significant expansion. Scholars have largely agreed that economic openness exerts significant impacts on...

This essay examines the evolution of welfare regimes in contemporary China and Viet Nam. Specifically, it examines how the degeneration of state-socialist regimes and the evolution of new political economies in their wake have shaped institutional arrangements governing the provision and payment...