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  • Ageing in Asia-Pacific

    Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Thomas R. Klassen, Masa Higo, Nopraenue S. Dhirathiti, Theresa W. Devasahayam ...
    In the coming decades, challenges and risks associated with rapid population ageing will be paramount in Asia-Pacific. Examining key trends, dilemmas and developments with reference to specific nations, the book draws conclusions and policy recommendations that apply to Asia-Pacific as a whole. Individual chapters focus on the impact of population ageing, along with urbanization and ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Retirement in Japan and South Korea

    The past, the present and the future of mandatory retirement

    Edited by Masa Higo, Thomas R. Klassen ...
    This book analyses reforms to retirement policies in Japan and South Korea, especially in the context of rapid population ageing. A defining feature of the labour markets and workplaces in these two nations, and the lives of workers and families, is involuntary retirement at relatively young ages. The book explains past developments and recent reforms of retirement policies both in the two ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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  • Migration and Health in Asia

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  • China's Gilded Age

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  • China's Business Reforms

    Institutional Challenges in a Globalised Economy

    Edited by Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam, Malcolm Warner, Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
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  • Populist Authoritarianism

    Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

    by Wenfang Tang ...
    Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand. The book points to ... Read more

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    Entrepreneurship and the State

    by Yasheng Huang ...
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  • Understanding a Changing China

    Key Issues for Business

    by Howard Davies, Matevž Rašković ...
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  • Child Protection and Child Welfare

    A Global Appraisal of Cultures, Policy and Practice

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  • Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

    Edited by Bent Greve ...
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