Social investment and social welfare : international and critical perspectives / edited by James Midgley, Espen Dahl, Amy Conley Wright

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Midgley, James, editor.

Dahl, Espen, editor.

Wright, Amy Conley, editor.

Series:

New horizons in social policy.

New Horizons in Social Policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.) ; cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

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.

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 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 Østertun Geirdal and Anne Grete Tøge

11. Social investment as a means of integrating immigrants in Europe / Steinar Stjernø

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78536-783-8