Social Equity in the Asia-Pacific Region: Conceptualizations and Realities

CONTENTS

1.      Introduction: In Search of a More Global Definition of Social Equity

2.      Understanding Social Equity in Public Administration

3.      Characteristics and Cultures in the Asia-Pacific Region

4.      Ho'oponopono and the Kanaka Maoli: The Elusive Quest for Social Equity in the Hawaiian Islands

Jennifer A. Kagan and John C. Ronquillo

5.      Social (In)equity in Australia?

Yvonne Haigh and Kim Moloney

6.      Social Equity in the Pacific Islands

7.      "Two Chinas": Social Equity, Social Policies and the Urban-Rural Divide in China

8.      A Hong Kong Way of Social Equity

Sara Jordan

9.      Social Equity in Japan

Kohei Suzuki

10.  Social Equity and Public Sector Employment in the Republic of Korea

Soonhee Kim

11.  Social Equity in the Philippines: A Continuing-But Elusive-Promise

Alex B. Brillantes, Jr., Maria Victoria R. Raquiza, and Maria Pilar M. Lorenzo

12.  Social Equity in Singapore

Mathew Mathews and Leonard Lim

Morgen Johansen