ABSTRACT
The central objectives of this book have been to understand the nature of income maintenance, health, housing, and education policies in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan and to identify patterns of similarities and differences among them. Notwithstanding the vast political, social, and economic similarities among them, the preceding chapters show significant similarities as well as variations in their social policies. At the same time, the degree of similarities is higher between Hong Kong and Singapore on the one hand and between Korea and Taiwan on the other. But before we delineate the salient features of the two groups, let us recapitulate the key findings of the preceding chapters.
