The welfare regime in Singapore

East Asian Welfare Regimes in Transition: From Confucianism to Globalisation

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 187-211

  Wijeysingha, Vincent ^a  

^a London Borough of Camden   (United Kingdom)

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