Social Policy in Emerging Countries
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Defining Public Goods
David J. O’Brien
Through the lens of an economist’s notion of public goods, David J. O’Brien analyzes the dual problems of declining communities and polarizing conflicts between metropolitan and rural communities. The author describes in detail how seemi... -
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Global Youth Unemployment
Ross Fergusson, Nicola Yeates
‘Rarely has a study of global youth unemployment so adeptly combined an empirically-grounded scrutiny of its levels and trends, with a conceptually nuanced analysis of its political economy drivers at multiple scales. Fergusson and Yeate... -
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Ageing in Place
Edited by Bruce Judd, Kenichi Tanoue, Edgar Liu
‘This comprehensive book provides a unique offering to our understandings of ageing in place. It is particularly valuable in highlighting the differences and similarities in supporting and assisting ageing in place across countries with ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Inequality, Social Protection and Social Justice
James Midgley
‘The issue of inequality has returned to global agendas. James Midgley, the doyen of global social policy research, insists that social protection has a role to play in tackling inequality. He sets out an agenda of institutional reform t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited by Rana Jawad, Nicola Jones, Mahmood Messkoub
This book presents a state of the art in the developing field of social policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It offers an up-to-date conceptual analysis of social policy programmes and discourses in the MENA region b...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalizing Welfare
Edited by Stein Kuhnle, Per Selle, Sven E.O. Hort
From the welfare state’s origins in Europe, the idea of human welfare being organized through a civilized, institutionalized and uncorrupt state has caught the imagination of social activists and policy-makers around the world. This is p...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Beyond Public Policy
Peter K. Spink
‘The language we use shapes and limits our understanding of the problems we face and the solutions we can imagine. In this elegant and insightful book, rich with historical byways and international perspectives, Peter Spink reflects on h...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality
Edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Rolph van der Hoeven
‘The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations have set the most ambitious development agenda in history. For the first time, income inequality was included as a specific goal, and one that is essential to stem one of the worst...eBook:Find out more$31.96
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Protecting Minority Rights in African Countries
John M. Mbaku
‘An excellent exposition of the policy imperative for African countries to find ways to ensure peaceful coexistence of their ethnic groups and provide the enabling environment for inclusive growth and development. Mbaku has convincingly ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Innovation and Democratic Leadership
Marc Parés, Sonia M. Ospina, Joan Subirats
‘Since the 1970s cities have been inundated by socio-economic crises: the reinstitution of urban unevenness was accelerated by the first oil crisis, the deregulation of labour markets, privatization of prosperous and equity-generating pu...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Migration and Freedom
Brad K. Blitz
‘An advance, both analytically and empirically, for migration studies. With a base in international law and political theory, Blitz admirably opens up the ambiguous question of freedom of movement in relation to the restrictions still im...eBook:Find out more$33.56
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Managing the Middle-Income Transition
Edited by Juhzon Zhuang, Paul Vandenberg, Yiping Huang
The growth model of the People’s Republic of China has been based on high investments, exports, low-cost advantage, and government interventions. This model has successfully transformed the country from a low-income to an upper middle-in...eBook:Find out more$40.00
