透视亚洲福利保障经济:一个东西方比较的视角

Perspective on Asian Welfare Economy and Social Security: an East-West Comparison

亚洲福利保障经济的发展是在工业化和现代化进程的推动下不断进步的 ,它与国家主导的经济增长和再分配的目标是一致的 ,并被认为是经济增长的一种直接贡献力量。亚洲福利经济素以政府小规模公共开支的低成本作为其发展的优势 ,尽管这也意味着亚洲福利保障经济与西方社会的福利经济之间存在着显著的差异 ,但这也预示了亚洲福利保障经济在市场化的发展道路上可能比西方走得更远。宗教和文化的交融 ,实际上是规制了亚洲福利经济低水平发展的模式 ,但这种模式的发展 ,最终会更多地向接近西方特别是欧洲健全的体现民主和公民权益的福利经济模式靠拢。而中国适时确立的科学发展观 。

Asian welfare economy and social security, whose progressive development has been promoted by industrialization and modernization, show no difference in terms of the objective compared with that of the economic growth and redistribution under the State's domination. It has always been regarded as or expected to be direct contribution to the economic growth. Asian governments are relatively low spenders on social welfare or public expense, which is certainly their advantages, though these mean that there are notable differences in quality and quantity between Asian social welfare and Western social welfare. These also mean that Asian states may go even further on their tracks of social welfare marketization. The modernization in Asia has defined distinctions of Asian welfare from Western welfare in three aspects: (1) Asian welfare policy manifests great harmony with its newly marketized economy. (2) The systemization and continuity of Asian welfare policy is based on sustained economic development and social stability. (3) Being constrained by regional market development and discrepancies among inner religions and cultures, Asian welfare is far poorer in its standard of equity and coverage compared with Western welfare state. Religion and culture mingled, are mingling, and will still mingle, with each other in Asian countries. This has programmed a neutral model for Asian social welfare development, and however, sooner or later Western general and universal welfare economy and social security will surely supersede this neutral model in its developmental trends. Today, liberalism supporters of Western economy, including World Bank and IMF, are all seemly to have changed their view on Asian welfare, and are gradually acknowledging that Asian countries also need to construct perfect welfare states, which should be much more close to the European model in matter of forms. China has formed the scientific viewpoint of development at this right moment; it is quite evident to show that China has gone a further step in defining the developmental objective and direction of its social security and welfare economy.