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New Social Policy Agendas for Europe and Asia : Challenges, Experience, and Lessons
 The East Asia crisis of 1997-98 created enormous challenges for the region’s social sectors, and in the wake of that crisis the European and East Asian governments brought together hundreds of experts over a two-year period to share knowledge and generate new ideas about social policy. One of the important results of the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) was this collection of essays on a wide range of welfare issues—from social security reform to labor market policy, cross-border migration to gender relations, health care policy to unemployment—issues that remain the most pressing in Europe and Asia today.
Contributors to this volume include top social policy scholars and practitioners from both regions. Throughout, case studies draw on both Asian and European experiences but focus especially on those insights and ideas that have practical relevance for East Asia and other developing regions. An invaluable, pragmatic tool for social policy makers and practitioners, this book will also be of interest to academics and students of Asian and international studies, and to anyone with an interest in social policy formation.
Katherine Marshall, Olivier Butzbach / éditions The world bank , 2003
9 juin 2010
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