Asian Values, Social Policy and Policy Reforms: What is the Direction for ?

21st Century COE Programme: Research Centre on Public Affairs For Sustainable Welfare Society

Chiba University, Japan

2005/06 WORKSHOP SERIES: 2
On Thursday, 25th and Friday, 26th August 2005

Co-organised by

The Research Centre on Public Affairs for Sustainable Welfare Society (ReCPA),Chiba University, Japan

The European Foundation on Social Quality (EFSQ) , The Netherlands
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., P.R. China
Sponsored by The Univers Foundation, Japan
At the Board Room, Wen Lan Tang Shaw College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong S.A.R., P.R. China
 
Afternoon Session: 25th of August 2005 (14.00 - 17.00)
Research Framework and Research Agenda Setting for Social Policy and Development in Asia
1. Typology and Regimes: An Empirical Analysis of the East Asian Welfare Regime
 Yu-ting Liu, Ph.D. student, University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K. @
2. Prospectives for Understanding Asian Welfare States: the Reflections from Japanfs Experience Yoshinori Hiroi, Professor of Welfare Policy, Faculty of Law and Economics, Chiba University, Japan
3. Applying and Achieving Social Quality for Asia: Developing Social Quality Approach in Asian Types of Civil Society and its Implications for Governance Tetsuo Ogawa, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Faculty of Law and
Economics, Chiba University, Japan
Morning Session: 26th of August 2005 (10.00 -13.00)
Labour Market, International Migration and Employment Policy
1. The Relationship between Social Insurance Programme and Labour Policy for Migrant Workers in Korea Ilcheong Yi, D.Phil. (Oxon), Associate Professor of Social Policy, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan
2. Welfare to Work Programmes in Hong Kong: Development and Implications Kwong-Leung Tang, Chair and Professor of Social Work, Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong
3. Labour Market and Social Policy Reform in the EU: EU Experiences for Asia Michael Dostal, D.Phil. (Oxon), Lecturer of EU Public Policy, Brunel University, U.K.
Afternoon 26th of August 2005 (14.00-18.00)
Challenges of Population Ageing and their Implications for Social Policy Reforms in Asia
1. Political Economy of Ageing Societies in a Globalizing World On-Kwok Lai, Dr. res. pol.(Bremen), Professor of International Political Economy, Department of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
2. Political Economy of Population Ageing in China and Its Implications for Social Policy Yuegen Xiong, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Policy, Department of Sociology, Peking University, P.R. China
3. Comparing Ageing Policies in Mainland China and Hong Kong, SAR: Policy
Implications and Solutions
 King K. Tsao, Ph.D. (Chicago), Associate Professor of Government, Department of
Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P.R. China
4. Policies for Population Ageing in Taiwan and its Implications for Genders

Fen-Ling Chen, Ph.D.(Bath), Associate Professor of Social Policy, Department of Sociology, Yuantze University, Taiwan
5. Population Ageing, Baby-Boomer Cohorts and Health Care Reform: their Implications for Genders Mayumi Nomura, Ph.D. (Chiba), COE Fellow, Research Centre on Public Affairs, Chiba University
6. Overview of Personal Social Services in Japan: Current and Future Perspectives Tetsuhiko Izumi, Assistant Professor of Theory of Social Security, Faculty of Social Welfare, Den-en Chofu University, Japan