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  • Social Protection and Development

    Growth, Welfare and Equity

    by James Midgley ...
    This insightful book examines the crucial role of social protection in development, with a particular focus on the Global South. Drawing on extensive empirical research and theoretical frameworks, internationally recognized social development scholar, James Midgley counters neoliberal economic arguments that claim social protection schemes negatively impact development. Instead, he demonstrates ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Social Policy and Change in East Asia

    by James Lee, Yapeng Zhu, Kam-wah Chan, Kim-wah Chung, Keqing Han, Patricia Kennett, Kai Liu, Lucille Lok-sun Ngan, Raymond Man-hung Ngan0, Heidi Reed1, Qiaobing Wu2 ...
    Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book’s focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government since the 2008 financial tsunami struck the region. Together, the essays in Social Policy and Change in East Asia argue that traditional ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Reframing Global Social Policy

    Social Investment for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

    by Tim Jackson, Jane Jenson, James Midgley, Robin Webster, Anton Hemerijck, Laia Maynou Pujorlas, Guillem López-Casasnovas, Jon Kvist, Marius R. Busemeyer, Giuliano Bonoli, Gunther Schmid, Stephan Klasen, Huck-ju Kwon, Cook Cook ...
    Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together with the environmental imperative of ‘sustainability’ are shaping a new global development agenda.This ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • International Perspectives on Welfare to Work Policy

    Edited by Richard Hoefer, James Midgley ...
    Learn what you can do to promote social policy initiatives that really workInternational Perspectives on Welfare to Work Policy presents the latest available research on the various interpretations of welfare-to-work in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hong Kong, and on the role social work plays in cr ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Future Directions in Social Development

    Edited by James Midgley, Manohar Pawar ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book invites readers to think about future directions in social development. The book succinctly presents the historical context and progress of social development. By reflecting on the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals, it discusses the increasing global relevance of several critical themes and issues such as human rights and good governance, participation, peace, gender, ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Social Work and Social Development

    Theories and Skills for Developmental Social Work

    Edited by James Midgley, Amy Conley ...
    Social workers have been involved in social development for many years, but it is only recently that these ideas have been explicitly applied to social work practice. The result is that a new and distinctive approach to social work practice known as developmental social work has emerged. Developmental social work emphasizes the role of social investment in professional practice. These investments ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Poverty, Income and Social Protection

    International Policy Perspectives

    Edited by Richard Hoefer, James Midgley ...
    This book provides insights into the way social protection policy is being redefined as a result of the new commitment by governments around the world to use these programs to reduce poverty. The case studies presented show how innovations in social protection have emerged in different countries. They also discuss various aspects of social protection that will be of interest to readers. While some ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • International Encyclopedia of Social Policy

    Edited by Tony Fitzpatrick, Huck-ju Kwon, Nick Manning, James Midgley, Gillian Pascall ...
    Available in paperback for the first time, this milestone work offers an in-depth treatment of all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally. Supported by a distinguished international advisory board, the editors have compiled almost 900,000 words across 734 entries written by 284 leading specialists to provide authoritative coverage of concepts, policy actors, welfare ... Read more

    $115.00 USD

  • Grassroots Social Security in Asia

    Mutual Aid, Microinsurance and Social Welfare

    Edited by James Midgley, Mitsuhiko Hosaka ...
    Series series Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia
    Grassroots Social Security in Asia investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to low-income people in Asia and in particular the region's developing countries. Historically, these associations have consisted of small groups of people with common interests who save regularly to support, maintain and supplement their incomes. Members make regular contributions to a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Social Policy and Poverty in East Asia

    The Role of Social Security

    Edited by James Midgley, Kwong Leung Tang ...
    Series series Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia
    This book looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the ongoing challenge of poverty in East Asia despite the region’s spectacular experience of economic growth in decent decades. The East Asian miracle resulted over the last four decades in a transformation of the region’s traditional agrarian economies and significant increases in standards of living for ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    Institutional Challenges in a Globalised Economy

    Edited by Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam, Malcolm Warner, Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu ...
    China's recent economic reforms have led to impressive growth, and an unprecedented enthusiasm for establishing foreign enterprises in China. Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world and is now considered to be the world's third biggest economy. Its greater economic integration with the rest of the world, especially since its accession to ... Read more

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  • Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore

    Making Future Citizens

    by Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between seemingly neutral policy incentives and the perceived and experienced disparate effects.Drawing on a ... Read more

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