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(...) Kohl, R.: Globalisation and inequality in Southeast Asia. Forrester, G.: Accessing essential services. Reforming the role of government in Indonesia. Hashim, S.: Governance and social policy in Malaysia. May, R. J.: Governance and social safety nets in the Philippines. Phananiramai, M. ;...
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Institutions whose goal is to help those at the margins have been a feature of social life for centuries. Today, social assistance institutions have integration and encouragement as their goal. They seek to avoid exclusion and stigmatisation.Poverty can tear at the fabric of society. However,...
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Social safety nets protect citizens against hardship. By offering compensation, social safety nets may help overcome the political resistance to trade liberalisation and structural reform, but they can also weaken the incentives to work and save. Depending on their design, safety nets may also...
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Since the 1960s the family in the OECD area has undergone significant transformation. In many countries, the extended … family has all but disappeared, and the traditional two-parent family has become much less widespread as divorce rates, re … become more diverse, with some ethnic minorities evolving as parallel family cultures while others intermingle with …
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Fears of the prospect of growing social exclusion have become important concerns in recent years for many countries. Improving the quality of education and the standards attained by students to improve employability is one of the tools being used to prevent exclusion. However, changing social...
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