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The Rise of the Welfare State in Asia

With ever-increasing prosperity, will the emerging economies of Asia embrace Western-style welfare states? A controversial subject even in the West, it is more so in the growing economies of Indonesia and China, where both massive populations and booming economies are coupled with debilitating social inequality, disease, and poverty. While reforms initiated thus far are small […]

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