Reframing global social policy : social investment for sustainable and inclusive growth / edited by Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deeming, Christopher, editor.

Smyth, Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2018.

Summary:

Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth, together with internationally renowned contributors, illustrate how the merging of 'social investment' and 'inclusive growth and development' agendas, together with the environmental imperative of 'sustainability', is forging an important new social policy framework and shaping a new global development agenda.

Contents:

Part I: Theoretical frameworks

One. Social investment, inclusive growth that is sustainable and the new global social policy

Two. Taking social investment seriously in developed economies

Three. Making growth inclusive: perspectives on the role of social policy in developing economies

Four. The challenges of inclusive growth for the developmental welfare state

Part II: Policy applications

Five. Measuring and monitoring inclusive growth in developing and advanced economies: multiple definitions, open questions and some constructive proposals

Six. Towards an employment strategy of inclusive growth

Seven. Active labour market policies for an inclusive growth

Nine. Inclusive growth and social investments over the life course

Ten. Inclusive economic growth for health equity: in search of the elusive evidence

Eleven. Social protection, social investment and inclusive development

Twelve. Social politics puzzling: governance for inclusive growth and social investment

Thirteen. Limits to growth revisited

Fourteen. Conclusion: towards a new global social policy framework?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

ISBN:

1-4473-3251-2

1-4473-3253-9

1-4473-3250-4

OCLC:

1024265018