State Schemes or Safety Nets? China's Push for Universal Coverage

After rapid changes in social policy and inaeases in social expenditures over the past five years, many of the uniformly negative assessments of China's record on health care, retirement pensions, and other forms of social security have to be reconsidered. This article examines the rapid expans...

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Veröffentlicht in:Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 2014-04, Vol.143 (2), p.69-80
1. Verfasser: Frazier, Mark W.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:After rapid changes in social policy and inaeases in social expenditures over the past five years, many of the uniformly negative assessments of China's record on health care, retirement pensions, and other forms of social security have to be reconsidered. This article examines the rapid expansion in social policy coverage and spending, and considers the possible significance of these changes for Chinese politics. The administrative and territorial categories that have defined access to social welfare provision over the history of the People's Republic of China have not yet receded, but their significance has diminished with programs that aeate uniform eligibility across rural and urban categories of citizenship. Large gaps in benefits remain, and are likely to generate political demands in the future as urbanization continues to erode the administrative distinctions between urban and rural.
ISSN:0011-5266
1548-6192
DOI:10.1162/DAED_a_00273