caa a22 4500 388104449 CHVBK 20180307125332.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S030574100000343X doi S030574100000343X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S030574100000343X Croll Elisabeth J. Social Welfare Reform: Trends and Tensions [Elektronische Daten] [Elisabeth J. Croll] 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. Copyright © The China Quarterly 1999 The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 159(1999-09), 684-699 0305-7410 159<684 1999 159 CQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574100000343X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574100000343X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Croll Elisabeth J. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 159(1999-09), 684-699 0305-7410 159<684 1999 159 CQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge