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Western and Chinese ideas of social welfare

Social welfare in the modern world has become an indispensable social institution. In many countries, expenditures on social welfare not only constitute the largest portion of their budgets (OECD, 1981), but also affect the lives of most of their people. Broadly speaking, social welfare comprises social security and a host of other personal services provided to promote the wellbeing of the young, the sick, the elderly and the disabled. It is closely related to institutions like education, medical care, employment and housing (Dixon and Kim, 1985). More and more countries have now recognized the provision of social welfare as a government responsibility. From a historical perspective, the provision of social welfare in