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Social Welfare in India and China
Jianguo Gao · Rajendra Baikady · Lakshmana Govindappa · Sheng-Li Cheng Editors
Social Welfare in India and China A Comparative Perspective
Editors Jianguo Gao Shandong University Jinan, China Lakshmana Govindappa Central University of Karnataka Kalaburagi, India
Rajendra Baikady Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel University of Johannesburg Johannesburg, South Africa Sheng-Li Cheng Shandong University Jinan, China
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Foreword
For many years, a common axis of comparison between China and India lay in their respective political regimes. Authoritarian China earned high praise (including from many quarters in India) for its rapid economic growth and even faster pace of urban expansion. Democratic India drew accolades for holding regular elections on a vast scale in terms of voters, and doing so over successive decades when many other low-income democracies saw transitions to authoritarian rule. The political axis of comparison may have been a valid lens with which to analyze certain events over time in India and China, but in a welcome development, several recent studies of have moved beyond the political comparison. This book, in putting social welfare and social policy questions under a comparative light, shows the potential benefits of moving toward other domains of comp
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