Social Investment and Social Welfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Investment and Social Welfare write by James Midgley. This book was released on 2017-05-26. Social Investment and Social Welfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Towards a Social Investment Welfare State?
Towards a Social Investment Welfare State? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards a Social Investment Welfare State? write by Nathalie Morel. This book was released on 2012. Towards a Social Investment Welfare State? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the late 1990s, new strategies concerning the role and shape of welfare states have been formulated, many of which are guided by a logic of social investment. This book maps out this new perspective and assesses both its achievements and shortcomings. In doing so, it provides a critical analysis of social investment ideas and policies and opens up for discussion many of Europe's most pressing concerns--such as an aging population, the current economic crisis, and environmental issues-- and whether social investment can provide adequate responses to these challenges.
Implementing innovative social investment
Implementing innovative social investment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Implementing innovative social investment write by Baines, Susan. This book was released on 2019-01-09. Implementing innovative social investment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources to enhance human capital and mobilise the productive potential of citizens, starting in early childhood. This edited collection brings regional and local realities to the forefront of social investment debates by showcasing successes, challenges and setbacks of Social Investment policies and services from ten European countries: Italy, UK, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Spain. It provides practical, accessible illustrations of good practice, routes to success, and lessons learned. The book is informed throughout by engagement with service users and local communities, and features many previously unheard voices including front-line workers, local decision makers, volunteers and beneficiaries.
The Uses of Social Investment
The Uses of Social Investment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Uses of Social Investment write by Anton Hemerijck. This book was released on 2017-05-26. The Uses of Social Investment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment. It surveys the emergence, diffusion, limits, merits, and politics of social investment as the welfare policy paradigm for the 21st century, seen through the lens of the life-course contingencies of the competitive knowledge economy and modern family-hood. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the volume revisits the intellectual roots and normative foundations of social investment, surveys the criticisms that have leveled against the social investment perspective in theory and policy practice, and presents empirical evidence of social investment progress together with novel research methodologies for assessing socioeconomic 'rates of return' on social investment. Given the progressive, admittedly uneven, diffusion of the social investment policy priorities across the globe, the volume seeks to address the pressing political question as to whether the social investment turn is able to withstand the fiscal austerity backlash that has re-emerged in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.
The Future of the Social Investment State
The Future of the Social Investment State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Future of the Social Investment State write by Marius R. Busemeyer. This book was released on 2020-04-02. The Future of the Social Investment State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social investment is part of a strategy to modernize the European welfare states by focusing on human resource development throughout the life-course, while ensuring financial sustainability. The last decades have seen cost containment in areas such as pensions and health care, but also expansion in areas such as early childhood education, higher education and active labor market policies. This development is linked to a Social Investment (SI) approach, which should, ideally, promote a better reconciliation of work and family life, high levels of labor market productivity and strong economic growth, while also mitigating social inequality. However, institutionalization of policies that may mainly benefit the middle class has some unintended effects, such as perpetuating new inequalities and the creation of other Matthew effects. While research on the rise of the social investment state as a new paradigm of social policy-making for European welfare states has grown significantly, there are still important gaps in the literature. The chapters in this book address the controversies around social investment related to inequalities, individual preferences and the politics of social investment. This volume is therefore organized around policies, politics and outcomes. The contributing authors bring together expert knowledge and different perspectives on SI from several disciplines, with original path-breaking empirical contributions, addressing some key questions that thus far are unanswered, related to Matthew effects, inequalities, ambiguities of social investment and institutional complementarities. Furthermore, it is the first volume that covers the core policy areas of social investment: childcare, education and labour market policies. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.
