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Welfare reforms in post-crisis Korea
— dilemmas and choices | | Author(s) | Hye Kyung Lee |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Society, vol 3, pt 3, July 2004 |
| Pages | pp 291-299 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Social policy ; Economics ; Korea. |
| Annotation | The welfare reforms executed in Korea following the abrupt financial meltdown in November 1997 are explored. This paper also asks whether the same line of reforms will continue further into 21st century Korea. Kim Dae Jung's government's post-crisis policy choice was to pursue an expansion and consolidation of the social welfare system based on the system of solidarity. Consequently, the size of social welfare expenditure grew fast between 1996 and 1999. Korean experience of the post-crisis years demonstrates the case in which global integration of economy brought about the fast expansion of social welfare programmes. The ultimate question is, will this growth continue in the sea of eco-liberal challenges, with the new government's "Participatory Welfare" whose complete design has not yet been made public? (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040809207 A |
| Classmark | TY: TM2: W: 7DK |
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