Big business as vanguard: social welfare expansion in China

Abstract Why would an emerging market economy without Western democratic institutions provide and promote social welfare to its citizens? This paper explores the driving forces behind the rapid yet unequal expansion of social welfare in China, a phenomenon notable since the late 1990s. Rather than a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hao Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2023-09-01
Series:Asian Review of Political Economy
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s44216-023-00014-0