Welfare, Work, and Poverty: Social Assistance in China
October 12, 2017 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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DESCRIPTION
Professor Gao will be sharing insights from her new book that systematically examines the impacts and effectiveness of China’s primary social assistance program — Minimum Livelihood Guarantee, or Dibao — since its inception in 1993.
SPEAKER
Qin Gao is a professor at the Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW), a faculty affiliate of the Columbia Population Research Center and of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the director of Columbia University’s China Center for Social Policy.