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  • SOCIAL PROTECTION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
    LEILA PATEL, JAMES MIDGLEY AND MARIANNE ULRIKSEN
    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 fundi...

    $1,260.00

  • INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIAL POLICY
    FITZPATRICK, TONY / KWON, HUCK-JU / MANNING, NICK / MIDGLEY, JAMES / PASCALL, GILLIAN
    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 a...

    $2,300.00

  • GRASSROOTS SOCIAL SECURITY IN ASIA
    MIDGLEY, JAMES / HOSAKA, MITSUHIKO
    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 ...

    $1,160.00

  • SOCIAL POLICY AND POVERTY IN EAST ASIA
    MIDGLEY, JAMES / TANG, KWONG LEUNG
    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 stand...

    $1,560.00

  • SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
    JAMES MIDGLEY
    Walking through social development’s key theoretical principles 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 j...

    $1,307.22

  • SOCIAL POLICY FOR DEVELOPMENT
    ANTHONY L HALL / JAMES MIDGLEY
    ′Strong social policy is essential for sustainable growth. This book is an extremely useful overview of social policy issue for policy makers and anyone who wants to understand the true roots of successful sustainable development′ - Ian Johnson, Vice President for Sustainable Development, The World Bank ′Throughout the world issues of social development have now taken centre st...

    $1,880.25

  • SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
    JAMES MIDGLEY
    The social development approach seeks to integrate economic and social policies within a dynamic development process in order to achieve social welfare objectives. This first comprehensive textbook on the subject demonstrates that social development offers critically significant insights for the developed as well as the developing world. James Midgley describes the social devel...

    $1,987.69