Economic Stress, Human Capital, and Families in Asia Research and Policy Challenges /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Yap, Mui Teng (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Quality of Life in Asia, 4
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Public health.; Medical research.; Social policy.; Quality of life.; Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Social Policy.; Public Health.

This book presents recent findings about the consequences and policy implications of economic stress for human capital development and family well-being in Asia. The scope of the chapters goes beyond the impact of current financial crisis to include the effect of economic deprivation families in Asi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Economic Stress, Human Capital, and Families in Asia: Research and Policy Challenges; Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
• PART I: OVERVIEW
• Chapter 2: Global Financial Crisis and Economic and Social Challenges for Asia and the Pacific; Noeleen Heyzer
• Chapter 3: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Children in East Asia and the Pacific: A UNICEF Perspective (2009-2010); Samman J. Thapa and Mahesh S. Patel
• Chapter 4: The Long Reach of Early Childhood Poverty; Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson
• PART II: WOMEN, CHILDREN AND ECONOMIC STRESS
• Chapter 5: The 1997 Economic Crisis and Changes in the Pattern of Achieved Fertility and Ideal Number of Children in Korea; Doo-Sub Kim
• Chapter 6: Abandoned or Abandoning Men: Economic Stress, Gender Relations and Migration of Filipinas to Singapore; Janet M. Arnado
• Chapter 7: Economic Insecurity and Husband-to-Wife Physical Assault in Hong Kong: The Role of Husband’s Power Motive; Adam K. L. Cheung and Susanne Y. P. Choi
• PART III: ECONOMIC STRESS AND HEALTH
• Chapter 8: Economic Stress and Health among Rural Chinese Elderly; Wei-Jun Jean Yeung and Zhenhua Xu
• Chapter 9: Poverty, Perceived Economic Strain and Psychological Distress among Thai Older Adults; Kattika Thanakwang
• PART IV: SOCIAL SUPPORT DURING ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS
• Chapter 10: Social Networks and Reduction of Risk in Disasters: An Example of the Wenchuan Earthquake; Zhao Yandong
• Chapter 11: Human and Social Capital Dynamics in Economic Crises – The Impact on Poor Chinese Migrant Children in Hong Kong during the Far East Economic Crisis; Sam Wong
• PART V: ECONOMIC STRESS AND PUBLIC POLICY
• Chapter 12: Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs): A Child Policy Strategy in Asia; Shirley Gatenio Gabel and Sheila B. Kamerman
• Chapter 13: The Impact of Economic Crises on Health: Past Evidence and Policy Implications for Asia; Kai-Hong Phua and Kai-Lit Phua
• Chapter 14: Policy Responses in an Unstable Globalized Economy: Multi-Stressed Low-Earning Families in Singapore; Irene Y. H. Ng and Kong-Weng Ho
• Chapter 15: Conclusion and Policy Implications; Yap Mui Teng.