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 many ordinary people. Even though it was given little attention, poverty has remained an ongoing problem. The problem became particularly evident however with the Asian financial crisis of 1997...
This book looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the ongoing challenge of poverty in East Asia despite t...
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 social policy approach has failed to account for the problem of economic volatility and to devise policy measures that can promote long-term stability. Avoiding a static and Eurocentric approach, the...
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...
This work 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.
This work provides insights into the way social protection policy is being redefined as a result of the new commitment by governments around the world...
Walking through social development's key theoreticalprinciples and practice strategies, this book shows how it promotes peoples' wellbeing not only in the Global South, where it first emerged, but in the Western countries as well. It covers:
Definitions and an historical evolution of social development
Key theoretical debates around social well-being, human rights and social justice
Social development practice such as human capital interventions, community development and cooperatives, asset building, employment...
Walking through social development's key theoreticalprinciples and practice strategies, this book shows ...
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 communal fund which is used to provide income protection when they experience financial hardship.
This book is the first to comprehensively document the activities of mutual...
Grassroots Social Security in Asia investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to low-income people in Asi...
A new generation of innovative social protection strategies is emerging in southern Africa. Although cash transfers are most prevalent, some country strategies include combinations of interventions such as food, livelihood inputs and support, asset building, public works and social services. The strategies vary in their commitment to social rights, their institutional and funding arrangements, the reach, scope and design of the programmes, and the behavioural conditions attached to grant access. The proliferation of national social protection in the Global South has been widely supported...
A new generation of innovative social protection strategies is emerging in southern Africa. Although cash transfers are most prevalent, some countr...
Have you ever felt like an alien? Have you ever wondered if things in your life weren't quite as you thought they were? That maybe things around you weren't quite as they seem? That a hidden plot may be unravelling around you, right before your very eyes... "Billy was an alien. Only thing was, he had no idea." Billy Morken sets out on a typical Saturday morning to get coffee, hoping to have a quiet weekend alone with his attractive but highly demanding girlfriend Sally. After an engagement threatens the quiet, Billy begins to have serious doubts about his life; circumstances becoming...
Have you ever felt like an alien? Have you ever wondered if things in your life weren't quite as you thought they were? That maybe things around you w...
A collection of one hundred poems; existential and introspective considerations and reflections upon convulsive moments of the soul. A discontented, degenerating, and then elevating journey through a trio of emotional tornadoes: RAGE - The gift of anger: the reaction to injustice, DESPONDENCY - the dark anguish of the tragedies of romance, and CLARITY the synchronicities and inspiration of epiphany. Tales told, moments muted, memories forged in the howling chaos of the night.
A collection of one hundred poems; existential and introspective considerations and reflections upon convulsive moments of the soul. A discontented, d...
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, environment, religion and spirituality, aging, social protection and partnership. It appreciates the importance of goals and targets, but calls to look beyond them to visualise future directions in social...
This book invites readers to think about future directions in social development. The book succinctly presents the historical context and progress ...
