Handbook of Social Policy and Development
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80037-946-6 (ISBN)
With contributions from leading experts in both social policy and development studies, this Handbook analyses the complexities of integrating social policy and development studies. Examining a diverse and comprehensive range of countries and case studies that highlight ways to improve this integration, contributors deal with critical debates, covering a wide range of services, programmes, providers and policy sectors.
The Handbook of Social Policy and Development is an invaluable introduction to the subject for students of social policy and development studies. Its comprehensive approach also makes it a valuable reference for researchers and specialists in the field.
Contributors include: L. Alfers, A. Barrientos, J. Beall, A. Datta, H. Dean, K. Falkenberg, R. Jolkonnen, D. Kiwan, H.-j. Kwon, J. Lee, A. Lombard, F. Lund, P. Mader, J. Midgley, L. Patel, M. Pawar, M. Rogan, R. Surender, M. Terano, M. Urbina-Ferretjans, A. Virk, N. Yeates
Edited by James Midgley, Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley, US, Rebecca Surender, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK and Laura Alfers, Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Rhodes University, South Africa and Director, Social Protection Programme, WIEGO, UK
Contents:
Introduction to the Handbook of Social Policy and Development
James Midgley, Rebecca Surender and Laura Alfers
PART I SOCIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT: ORIGINS AND PROGRESSION
1. Social policy and development: an overview
James Midgley
2. The social policy nexus and development: convergence, divergence and dynamic change
Rebecca Surender
PART II KEY ISSUES AND DEBATES
3. Shaping society from below: social movements, social policy and development
Laura Alfers
4. Gender: toward gender equality and poverty reduction
Leila Patel
5. Global social policy in a development context: ideas, actors and implementation
Huck-ju Kwon
6. The SDGs: towards a social development approach in the 2030 Agenda?
Marian Urbina-Ferretjans
7. Social and human rights
Hartley Dean
8. Social policy and urban development
Jo Beall
9. Rural development
Amrita Datta
10. The environment and development: fight against poverty and/or protection of the environment – a conflict of interests?
Karl Falkenberg
11. Security and development
Dina Kiwan
12. World-regional social governance, policy and development
Nicola Yeates
13. The informal economy and informal employment
Francie Lund
14. Employment-based social protection: ‘productivism’, universalism and social citizenship
Michael Rogan and Laura Alfers
PART III SERVICES, PROGRAMMES AND POLICY SECTORS
15. Health and development
Amrit Virk
16. Education, social policy and development
Mayumi Terano
17. Housing, development and social justice
James Lee
18. Social insurance, pensions and development
James Midgley
19. Social assistance, poverty and development
James Midgley
20. Conditional income transfers, social policy and development
Armando Barrientos
21. Social work and family services
Antoinette Lombard
22 Financial inclusion and microfinance
Philip Mader and Solène Morvant-Roux
23. Community development programmes
Manohar Pawar
24. NGOs and their role in the welfare mix
Roosa Jolkkonen
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.11.2020 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken |
| Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80037-946-3 / 1800379463 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80037-946-6 / 9781800379466 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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