Description:
This book argues that in order to understand dibao (China's minimum livelihood guarantee) we need to look at how the programme emerged and how it has developed in the years since.
Brief description: Daniel R. Hammond is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Society at the University of Edinburgh.
Review Quotes: This outstanding study of the genesis and evolution of China's Minimum Livelihood Guarantee will stand as the authoritative English-language source for this policy. Based on incisive interviews with key players and a fine eye for the critical detail in documentary sources, Hammond pulls together the contributions elite politics, state structure, and resources--each of them superbly analyzed--made to the scheme. His public policy approach is brimming with insights into how China operates more broadly.--Professor Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irvine