Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Search for New Social Policy Paradigm? Managing Changing Social Expectations and Welfare Regimes in Transition in Greater China 2. After the Regional and Global Financial Crises: Social Development Challenges and Social Policy Responses in Hong Kong and Macau 3. Welfare Restructuring and Social (In)equity across Generations in Hong Kong 4. Financial Tsunami, Economic Insecurity and Social Protection: The Case of Hong Kong 5. Development Strategies and Poverty Reduction in Taiwan: From Authoritarianism to Democratic Governance 6. Bringing the State Back In: The Developments of Chinese Social Policy in China since 2003 7. Social Policy in the Macao Special Administrative Region of China: A Case of Regulatory Welfare Regime 8. Old Age Care Concerns and State-Society Relations in China: Public Anxiety and State Paternalism 9. Challenges Confronting the Taiwan Goverment in Welfare Provision 10. Public-Private Pension Mix and Its Governance: Japan and Taiwan Compared 11. Fiscal reform, Decentralization and Poverty Alleviation in the Context of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan 12. Conclusion: Analyzing the Productvist Dimensions of Welfare: Looking beyond Greater China

About the Author

Ka Ho Mok is Chair Professor in Comparative Policy and Vice President (Research & Development) of The Hong Kong Institute of Education.

Maggie Lau is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy of the City University of Hong Kong.