Social Policy Approaches, Human Rights, and Social Development in Asia.

This article examines the overall social policy approach with reference to welfare pluralism in Asia and then compares the relation between the social policy approach and the level of social development in the Asian subregions. It concludes on the inappro-priateness of the residual welfare approach and the need for a rights-based social policy approach. It ends with a discussion on planning a rights-based social policy approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]