Gyu-Jin Hwang
Biography
Publications
Gyu-Jin Hwang is senior lecturer in Discipline of Sociology and Criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney. He specialises in comparative social policy development in East Asia. His latest publication includes Building Markets: Distributional Consequences of Social Policy in East Asia (Edward Elgar, 2022).
East Asia’s low welfare spending model fails to tackle inequality
A historical reliance on family has allowed governments to put the economic onus on those who can least afford it.