Asia has long been a testing ground for efforts to augment financial and social security by developing assets that may support individuals and households and contribute to long-term social development. Rapid growth in the number and breadth of asset-based social policies has prompted Asian scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to share lessons from current efforts and chart future directions. This book offers a unique collection of macro- and micro-level analyses on asset-based social development and compares and contrasts national social policies across the Asia Pacific region. Many asset-building policies and programmes have been undertaken in Asia, and innovative proposals continue to emerge. The contributions in this book present and assess this broad, often nuanced, and evolving landscape, and offer an insightful analysis of the evolution of asset-building policies, innovative programmes in rural populations, asset-based interventions to facilitate the development and well-being of children, as well as case studies on new, ground-breaking asset-building projects. Asset-Building Policies and Innovation in Asia will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Asian social policy, social welfare, social development and social work.
Introduction Part I: Asset-Building Policies
1. Housing Policy and Asset
Building: Exploring the Role of Home Ownership in East Asian Social Policy
2.
Australian Superannuation: An Example of Asset Building in Practice
3.
Malaysias Employees Provident Fund and Social Security
4. Asset-Based
Policies in Korea: Expansion, Challenges, and Future Directions
5. A
Comparative Study on Asset-Building Policy Diffusion in Korea and Taiwan
6.
The Evolution of Singapores Social Security System
7. Can Singapores
Central Provident Fund Still Meet Retirement Income Needs? Part II: Asset
Building and Diverse Populations
8. A Review of Features and Outcomes of the
Hong Kong Child Development Fund
9. Savings Accounts for Youth: Initial
Findings from Nepal
10. Financial Access and Economic Participation of Youth
with Disabilities in China: An Exploratory Study
11. Asset Poverty and
Happiness in Urban China
12. The Hutubi Model: What Have We Learned?
13.
Rebuilding Cultural Assets in an Ethnic-Minority Village in Yunnan Province,
China
14. Asset Building and Livelihood Rebuilding in Post-Disaster Sichuan,
China
15. Social Innovations on Land Use in Rural China: An Asset-Based
Analysis16. Asset-Building Innovations: Section I: A savings-led
HIV-prevention intervention for women engaging in sex work in Mongolia
Section II: An asset-building pilot for vulnerable children: Light of Hope
Saving Program in Lamphun Province, Thailand Section III:Asset building for
home ownership in the Nong Kaem Community, Thailand
17. Reflections and
Conclusions
Michael Sherraden is George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work and Director, Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
Li Zou is International Director and Director of the Global Assets Project, Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
Ben Hok-bun Ku is Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Suo Deng is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Peking University, China.
Sibin Wang is Professor, Department of Sociology, Peking University, China.
