Low public expenditures on social welfare: Do East Asian countries have a secret?

International Journal of Social Welfare

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 2-16

  Jacobs, Didier ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

East Asia; Enterprise welfare; Family welfare; Hong Kong; Japan; Korea; Private welfare; Public expenditures; Singapore; Social security; Social welfare; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042058044     PISSN: 13696866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2397.00104     Document Type: Article

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