Download or read book Welfare Capitalism in Southeast Asia written by M. Ramesh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-02-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only in-depth study of social policies in Southeast Asia. It compares social security, health, and education policies in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. After describing the policies and assessing their adequacy and equity implications, it examines the forces that have shaped them. It concludes that social programs (except for primary education) in the region are both inadequate and inequitable. It argues that the reason for this is political rather than cultural or socio-economic.