Policy innovation and policy realisation: the example of children future education and development accounts in Taiwan. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cheng, Li-Chen
• Is Part Of: Asia Pacific journal of social work and development. Volume 29:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 48
• Page End: 58
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Child poverty -- asset-based welfare theory -- anti-poverty strategy -- policy innovation; Social service -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Social service -- Asia -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 361.3
• DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2019.1571942
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0218-5385

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The Children Future Education and the Development Accounts (CFEDAs) are the first anti-poverty policy in Taiwan developed to provide incentives for the poor to accumulate assets for their future. Using CFEDAs as an example, this article analyses the process of developing and implementing an asset-based policy. It begins with an introduction to the policy structure. It then reviews the history of how the innovative idea of building assets for the poor became a policy proposal before presenting the convergence of three policy streams driving the prioritisation of CFEDAs in Taiwan's policy agenda. It concludes with challenges facing the policy implementation.