Social welfare East and West : Britain and Malaysia

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Social welfare East and West : Britain and Malaysia

edited by John Doling, Roziah Omar

Ashgate, c2000

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An exploration of the ways in which social welfare in two countries, half a world apart, may have similarities. Through identification of the differences and similarities of social welfare in Britain and Malaysia, the editors hope that we may be able to learn from one another as well as to contribute to debates both in our countries about how to respond to globalization and about global social policy. Accordingly, the contributors arranged themselves into pairs - one Malaysian, one British - to write reviews of one of each of the six areas of social welfare. Along with an opening chapter in which the aim was to identify a number of frameworks and issues that would allow the rest to be put into a context, the 12 chapters, each restricted to around 5000 words, provide a service-by-service account.

Table of Contents

  • Work and social security provision in Britain - seeking a third way, Ann Davis and Sue Wainwright
  • social security policy in Malaysia, Siti Hajar Abu Bakar and Faizah Yunus
  • for richer and poorer? Pension policy in the United Kingdom, Tony Maltby
  • formal old age financial security schemes in Malaysia, Mohd Fauzi Yaacob
  • managing a mixed economy of social care - community care in Britain, Rosemary Littlechild and Liz Ross
  • community care in Malaysia, Faizah Yunus and Siti Hajar Abu Bakar
  • Britain's evolving health policy, Mike McBeth
  • getting well in Malaysia, Roziah Omar
  • housing policy in Britain, John Doling
  • public housing policy in Malaysia, Mohd. Razali Agus
  • crime and penal policy in Britain, Mike Nellis and David Stephenson
  • imprisonment in Malaysia, Abdul Hadi Zakariah.

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