East Asian social policy towards the challenges of of an aging society
Keywords:
aging society, East Asia, social policyAbstract
The paper aims to describe how aging society has influenced social policy in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. It analyses a change in demographic structure of Asian societies as well it presents the history of the development of social policy in East Asia. The last section of the paper shows how much the change in demographic structure has been influencing the conservative welfare state characteristic of the East Asian countries.
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