Sun Chien-chung of the Department of Social Work at National Taipei University says that during the 1990s a new trend in thinking about social welfare came to maturity in the West, as a result of which encouraging the poor to build assets through savings and investment became the focal point of welfare policy.
台北大學社會工作學系教授孫建忠為文指出，一九九○年代是西方社會福利新思潮的成熟期，進而將過往僅以「現金收入」為主的福利模式轉為「收入」加「資產」為主的福利模式。