The Social Welfare And Import Trade Of Britain And China

The social welfare in the UK is very different in practice for example benefits and services are delivered at minimum level as the coverage it widespread and can be too costly or even extensive. The social protection in which the welfare state provided is irregular and unpredictable and the services are rationed very tightly. As the services have been contracted out to self-reliant providers the control over the quality and reliability of social protection had been even more difficult to maintain. (Spicker2014)

This Chinese economy is identified as a socialist market since 1992, the implementation of the type of economy stemmed from its historical phases of economic development. Around the world china is seen as a global hub for manufacturing. Not only is it the biggest largest exporter

In conclusion the Welfare State was created on the principle that the state accepted a responsibility to protect and promote the welfare of all citizens. It must be noted that the system was designed to provide a national minimum, not reduce inequalities. I have looked in detail at all aspects to combat the “five giants “and the popular support when the Beveridge report was introduced. I have also looked at flaws in the system, however the cornerstone of the Beveridgian welfare system, was left almost untouched until the 1980’s.

So, one may argue the creation of the welfare state is the turning point 1830-1948. The term ‘welfare state’ represented a new concept of how the state should relate to the people and was developed by the 1945 Labour government. It was heavily influenced by a report in 1942 -‘Social Insurance and Allied Services’ – published by William Beveridge. The report was a response to the existing problems of poverty as he set out to attack the ‘five giants’: want, squalor, disease, ignorance and idleness. The report produced a comprehensive manifesto of social reform, proposing that the social security system cover the whole population with benefits available to support people facing any crisis disrupting their normal income: unemployment, sickness, disability, death of the

The welfare state was brought about by the Beverage report of 1942. William Beveridge outlined the five social and economic factors which needed to be restored in order for Britain’s economy to thrive once more. He named them the ‘five giant evils’ poverty, disease, ignorance, squalor, idleness. During the early 1900’s, life in Britain was very different and the government did not accept any responsibilities for its citizens.

In addition to that, when developing countries were convinced, it has come to the arisen of a contemporary debate of free trade vs. fair trade. Obviously, in economic globalization of free trade, China has a main advantage which is low working wage, relatively to the US wage. And, the problem is that there is no mean of defining "unacceptably low wages" or "inhumane working conditions." As a result of the huge international gap of living standards, China has benefited from free trade, although most Americans view it as an unfair

Discuss the effects of globalisation on economic growth and the quality of life in the Chinese economy.

2014: 127) Beginning in the 1980’s, within the political and ideological context of globalisation, a new approach to welfare emerged which involved the dismissal of Keynesian demand-management policies while asserting the benefits of supply-side economics (Kennet 2001: 25). As a result of the oil crises of the 1970’s and the ‘stagflation’ which followed, there was seen a need to modify the direction of economic management (Pierson 1996: 4). The criticisms of the central features of social policy, according to neoliberal proponents such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, include that the welfare state was actually one of the principle causes of poor economic performance (Pierson 1996:

During the period of 1900s to 1945s, there was various significant landmarks which focused on the social welfare of the people in the United Kingdom. The Uk government launched various welfare programmes through the social welfare provision, financial abet or social security which refers to a programme having the main objective is to provide a minimum level of the income to the people who don’t have financial support, employment and those who are elderly and disabled. Many researchers reveal that the rate of the poverty is high so the government had a responsibility towards the moral obligation of the people and those projects were

The aim of this essay is to discuss and compare the British Welfare system with Germany and Sweden’s welfare systems. A welfare system is the structure of welfare provisions and services that provide a specific social need, but it is not only provided or organised solely by the government (Blakemore, 2001). It is a view that is rooted in individual exchanges between five organisations (State/Government, Market/Private Sector, Family/Kin networks, Local Communities and Civil Society). It reflects the history and cultures of different countries around the world (Haralambos, 2012). It is these providers that assume principal

This essay will consider whether the welfare state has eliminated poverty. It will examine what poverty is and how the definition varies from societies. The essay will look at the aims of the welfare state from conception and how it has changed to present times. The welfare state being analysed is the welfare state in the United Kingdom. It will discuss the nature of the social democratic welfare state and liberal criticisms of the problems this type of state brings. The recent changes to the welfare state will be reviewed and what the consequences of the changes may be. It will then look at recent statistics to determine whether the welfare state has eradicated poverty.

The purpose of this report is to compare both Australian and Chinese economies. China is one of Australia’s closest trade neighbours, often referred to as the Sino – Australian relations. While Australia has a minute population of 23.9 million in comparison to China’s 1.357 billion its economic ranking is just as its population, lower than China’s. Both economies have various similarities and differences in areas such as economic systems and historical events, economic growth, quality of life, employment and unemployment, distribution of income, environmental sustainability and, the role of government in health care, education and social welfare. The following report will parallel and compare both economies in retrospect to the

In 2001 China became a member of the World Trade Organization. China’s accession into this organization had many advantages and disadvantages for the country. Some of the advantages of being a member of the WTO for China was the strong increase in GDP growth rate which the country experienced as a result of the facilitation of trade and the increase in imports/exports. Some of the disadvantages of the membership to the WTO were the negative effects in health care, inequalities in income distribution, and inefficient pension funds.

However they did not succeed entirely, mostly because of the so called welfare state ‘path dependency’ defined in the Pierson’s book Dismantling the welfare state?: Reagan, Thatcher, and the politics of retrenchment. The social benefits turned out to be crucially important to voters and even the neoliberal government did not dare to cut off the benefits in order to be able to gain votes. Most analyses have showed that the welfare states were stable and resistant to most attempts of retrenchments introduced by governments and even though if some cut offs passed, the nature of welfares state has not changed. The resistance of welfare state’s institutions is extraordinary, no government would dare to significantly change or cancel the core social expenditures (eg. pensions). However that does not imply that the welfare states are stagnant, unchangeable, robust institutions. Welfares states are evolving and according to Bruno Palier every type of welfare state has its own path of dependency and welfare states differentiate between diverse periods of time, political system and types of changes introduced by governments. There is no such thing as a single recipe for the welfare retrenchment and neither a single pattern for welfare state evolution. The uniformity of the welfare state historical stages was often criticized for theoretical and empirical simplification thus the last period of retrenchment suffers from the same

The term “welfare state” is developed in the 1930s and has been regarded as the opposite meaning of warfare at that time. The concept is interpreted in various ways in different countries due to cultural and socio-economic differences and different historical development (Esping-Andersen, 2013). A welfare state, generally speaking, refers to a state where the society takes responsibility for providing comprehensive welfare like social and economic security to its population (Spiker, 2014). Despites different interpretations of welfare state over time and across countries, the essential values that a welfare state seeks to pursue are expected to remain consistent. This paper aims at identifying values that a welfare state seeks to maximize through literature review. Furthermore, the paper will also review the historical development of welfare system in Hong Kong and find possible similarities between Hong Kong and a welfare state.