Contracting welfare services to social organizations in China: multiple logics/
Yuanyuan Qu, Jude Howell and Regina Enjuto Martinez
- 2023
As part of a broader direction of welfare and governance reforms, China has launched a policy to contract welfare services out to social organizations. Scholars have explored the implementation of the policy in a few socioeconomically advanced cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Shanghai. In this article, we examine how local governments lacking nongovernmental services suppliers or resources for contracting respond to the policy.