Social Welfare in India and China: A Comparative Perspective
Jianguo Gao · Rajendra Baikady · Lakshmana Govindappa · Sheng-Li Cheng
Sep 2020 · Springer Nature
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501
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Focusing on social work and social service delivery, this book examines the social policies and programmes designed to address different societal issues and concerns across India and China. It focuses on gaining understanding of design and delivery of social welfare policies related to special interest groups, highlighting important contemporary challenges such as child labour, child abuse, exploitation of women, problems related to disabled people, mental health issue, illiteracy and unemployment. Offering a comparative perspective, the book considers the impact of political administration in both countries to critically assess key issues related to social welfare in two different political, economic, social, and cultural contexts.
About the author
Jianguo Gao is Professor in the Department of Social Work in the School of Philosophy and Social Development at Shandong University, China.
Rajendra Baikady is Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and Senior Research Associate at University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Lakshmana Govindappa is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Central University of Karnataka, India.
Sheng-Li Cheng is Professor in the Department of Social Work in the School of Philosophy and Social Development at Shandong University, China.
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