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  3. Politics and Policy in China's Social Assistance Reform
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:
December 2019
Print publication year:
2018
Online ISBN:
9781474420129
Subjects:
Epistemology and Metaphysics, Philosophy
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Book description

An exploration of dibao – China's minimum income guaranteeEvery day in the People's Republic of China 70 million people receive help from the state through the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao). What began as a reform in the city of Shanghai in the early 1990s is now a key component in the measures used by the Communist Party of China to maintain social stability and legitimacy. While scholars regularly discuss how effective dibao has been in alleviating poverty very little addresses what influenced its development. This book argues that in order to understand dibao we need to look at how the programme emerged and how it has developed in the years since. Drawing on newspaper articles, government reports and interviews with key officials and researchers, the book also addresses debate on the policy process in China as a whole.

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