西方工业国一般都用了它们国民生产总值四分之一于福利开支方面(主要是社会保障、医疗、教育及房屋),就算是被称为“福利落后国的美国亦用了18%(1989年)”,福利的庞大开支近十多年来被渲染为工业国经济衰退的原因。如此说来,“福利落后”的美国理应由于福利开支较少而经济增长较快。遗憾的是,美国并未因此而得益。对于亚洲区近十多年来经济发展迅速的新兴工业国来说,福利开支的低度投入是一个突出的现象。如新加坡及香港,近年来 Western industrialized countries generally spend a quarter of their GNP on welfare expenditures (mainly social security, medical care, education and housing), and even the United States, known as the “welfare-backward country, has also spent 18% (1989 Year) ”, the huge expense of welfare has been rendered as the reason for the economic recession in the industrialized countries for more than a decade. In this sense, the “welfare backward” United States should have enjoyed rapid economic growth due to less welfare spending. Unfortunately, the United States did not benefit from this. For the emerging industrialized countries in Asia that have enjoyed rapid economic growth in more than a decade, the low level of welfare spending is a prominent phenomenon. Such as Singapore and Hong Kong in recent years