1st Edition

Development and Social Policy The Win-Win Strategies of Developmental Social Policy

Edited By Christian Aspalter, Kenny Teguh Pribadi Copyright 2017
224 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In recent years, government and policymakers around the world have shifted their attention away from money-oriented, supply-side economics to institutional economics and people-oriented social and economic development. Issues such as poverty reduction, win-win solutions and strategies in social policy and their implementation, universalization, and a variety of new large-scale conditional cash... Read more

PART I: Introductory Part 1. Introduction Christian Aspalter and Kenny Teguh Pribadi PART II: Theoretical Part 2. General Theories of Development Economics Anis Chowdhury 3. Developmental Social Policy: Theory and Implementation James Midgley and Christian Aspalter PART III: In-Depth Case Studies 4. Evaluating Conditional Cash Transfer Systems: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean Christian Aspalter 5. Geography Targeting and Poverty Reduction: The Case of Thailand Amornsak Kitthananan 6. Evaluating the Performance of Provident Fund Systems: The Case of Singapore Christian Aspalter 7. Universalization of Social Security Systems: The Case of China Bingqin Li 8. The Extension of Social Security Systems: The Case of Indonesia Kenny Teguh Pribadi PART IV: Concluding Part 9. Development and Social Policy: A Way Forward for Developmental Social Policy Christian Aspalter

Biography

    Christian Aspalter is Professor of Social Policy at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, China.

     

    Kenny Teguh Pribadi is adjunct faculty at Catholic University of Soegijopranoto, Indonesia and former faculty at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, China, both in the field of economics.