TY - BOOK ID - 142266953 TI - Chinese social policy in a time of transition AU - Besharov, Douglas J. AU - Baehler, Karen J. PY - 2013 SN - 1299712096 0199990336 0199990328 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - China KW - China KW - Social policy KW - Economic conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142266953 AB - The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country's equally dramatic, though not always equally successful, social policy transition. Between the mid- 1990s and mid-2000s---the focal period for this book---China's central government went a long way toward consolidating the social policy framework that had gradually emerged in piecemeal fashion during the initial phases of economic liberalization. Major policy decisions during the focal period included adopting a single national pension plan for urban areas, standardizing unemployment insurance, (re) ER -