Social welfare reform: Trends and tensions
Social welfare reform: Trends and tensions
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DOI：
10.1017/s030574100000343x
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发表时间：
1999-09-01
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Croll, EJ
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作者：
Croll, EJ
1990年代初期和后期经济改革的加速一再突出了社会福利对维持经济增长、社会稳定和政治权威的重要性。事实上，中国政府的每一个十年目标都可以被视为建立或维持一个可获得的社会福利计划。经济增长需要进一步的企业改革，而企业改革反过来又需要工人社会福利的替代形式和资金。关于裁员和丧失福利造成的城市动乱以及持续缺乏福利造成的农村不满的零星报道表明，社会稳定和政治权威取决于政府改革提供社会福利的能力。与此同时，经济改革进程本身也改变了城市和农村的社会经济和政治环境，并对福利需求、服务供应和安全观念产生了深远的影响。
The acceleration of economic reform in the early and late 1990s has highlighted repeatedly the importance of social welfare for maintaining economic growth, social stability and political authority. Indeed each of these decade-long goals of China's government can be seen to rest on either establishing or maintaining an accessible social welfare package. Economic growth requires further enterprise reform which in turn requires alternative forms and funding of worker social welfare. Sporadic reports of urban unrest resulting from lay-offs and loss of welfare benefits and of rural discontent resulting from the continued absence of welfare benefits suggests that social stability and political authority are dependent on the government's ability to reform social welfare provisioning. Simultaneously the process of economic reform itself has altered urban and rural socio-economic and political environments and had far-reaching consequences for welfare demand, service supply and notions of security.