This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world. It emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and provides a framework for supporting social policy making.
Table of Content
Introduction: Why Focus on Social Policy? Globalization, inequality, and the demise of the state? Integrating Social and Economic policies Evolving social policies: the importance of national contexts Structural adjustment, poverty analysis and the safety nets paradigm New poverty reduction strategies and the missing middle Conclusion: A framework for social policy
About the author
ARJAN DE HAAN has been Social Development Adviser at the UK Department for International Development, China since 1998, and this book was finalised when he was Visiting Professor at the University of Guelph, Canada. His research interests include migration, labour markets and livelihoods, particularly in South Asia. At the Poverty Research Unit at the University of Sussex, UK, his work focused on poverty monitoring and analysis, and he published on concepts and measurement of social exclusion.
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