Social investment and social welfare : international and critical perspectives
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Social investment and social welfare : international and critical perspectives
(New horizons in social policy)
E. Elgar, c2017
- : cased
Available at 11 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book contributes to the growing literature on social investment by discussing the way social investment ideas have been adopted in different countries and in various academic and professional fields, including social policy, development studies and non-profit management. Documenting the experience of implementing social investment in different communities, it encourages a One World perspective that integrates these diverse experiences and promotes policy learning between different nations.
This book fills a major gap in the literature, which, in the past, has focused largely on European welfare states and their employment and educational policies. Contrary to the view that social investment is a new stage in the development of these welfare states, it shows that social investment has been endorsed in other countries and in different policy fields for many years, including housing, child welfare, community development, social protection and rural development. The contribution to social investment by international development organizations such as the United Nations, World Bank and International Labour Organization are discussed, specifically looking at how they have encouraged the application of social investment policies in development.
This book is primarily targeted at an academic readership that has become increasingly interested in social investment ideas in recent years. However, it will also be a useful resource for post-graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in social development, development studies, sociology, social policy, social work and public policy.
Contributors include: S. Cook, A. Conley Wright, E. Dahl, A. Hall, K. Halvorsen, J. Lee, J.C.B. Leung, T. Lorentzen, J. Midgley, A. Ostertun Geirdal, L. Patel, S. Pellissery, S. Stjerno, A.G. Toge, Y. Xu
Table of Contents
Contents:
Preface
Introduction
James Midgley, Espen Dahl and Amy Conley Wright
1. Social Investment: Concepts, Uses and Theoretical Perspectives
James Midgley
2. Social Investment in Early Childhood in Australia
Amy Conley Wright
3. Housing and Social Investment: Lessons from Hong Kong and Singapore
James Lee
4. Social Investments and Poor Families in India: The Role of Early Childhood and Employment Programmes
Sony Pellissery
5. Employment Policy and Social Investment in Norway
Espen Dahl and Thomas Lorentzen
6. The Child Support Grant in South Africa: Gender, Care and Social Investment
Leila Patel
7. Investing in Communities in the United States: Social Capital, Asset Building and Local Enterprise
James Midgley
8. Cash Transfers as Social Investments: The Brazilian Case
Anthony Hall
9. Pension Reform in China: Towards Social Investment
Joe C.B. Leung and Yuebin Xu
10. A Critical Perspective on Child Care and Social Investment in Norway: Whats in Children's Best Interest?
Knut Halvorsen, Amy Ostertun Geirdal and Anne Grete Toge
11. Social Investment as a Means of Integrating Immigrants in Europe
Steinar Stjerno
12. Social Investment and the International Development Organizations
Sarah Cook
13. Conclusion: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
James Midgley, Espen Dahl and Amy Conley Wright
Index
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