Handbook of Social Policy and Development
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Handbook of Social Policy and Development

9781785368424 Edward Elgar Publishing
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
Publication Date: 2019 ISBN: 978 1 78536 842 4 Extent: 512 pp
The Handbook of Social Policy and Development makes a groundbreaking, coherent case for enhancing collaboration between social policy and development. With wide ranging chapters, it discusses a myriad of ways in which this can be done, exploring both academic and practical activities. As the conventional distinction between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ countries becomes increasingly blurred, this Handbook explores how collaboration between social policy and development is needed to meet global social needs.

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The Handbook of Social Policy and Development makes a groundbreaking, coherent case for enhancing collaboration between social policy and development. With wide ranging chapters, it discusses a myriad of ways in which this can be done, exploring both academic and practical activities. As the conventional distinction between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ countries becomes increasingly blurred, this Handbook explores how collaboration between social policy and development is needed to meet global social needs.

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.
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‘If you read one book to understand current scholarship on social policy and development in the global south, this should be it. Lucid and comprehensive, it is encyclopaedic in scope. The role of the state is set out and powerfully defended. The bunkers into which the social sciences and policy-making have been artificially divided are exposed and questioned. Robert Kennedy said that GDP measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile: this book covers a large part of what makes life worthwhile.’
– David Piachaud, London School of Economics, UK
Contributors
Contributors: 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, S. Morvant-Roux, L. Patel, M. Pawar, M. Rogan, R. Surender, M. Terano, M. Urbina-Ferretjans, A. Virk, N. Yeates










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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

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