A unique explanation of the development of Korean social policy using the concepts of 'policy idea', 'policy network' and 'policy-linkages' to examine the causes, patterns and consequences of state interventions in the economy and social affairs

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Overview -- 1 The Social Protection Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals and Its Fiscal Challenge -- 2 Mongolia -- 3 Myanmar -- 4 Timor-Leste -- 5...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Authors' Note -- 1 Introduction: States, Markets, and Inequality -- 2 South African Society on the Eve of Apartheid -- 3 Social Change and Income Inequality Under Apartheid -- 4 Apartheid as a Distributional Regime -- 5 The Rise of Unemployment Under...

This volume explains how economic rights are realized--or violated--in Canada and the United States. Contributors analyze the philosophy, law, and politics of these rights and discuss specific issues such as poverty, health care, and the rights of people with disabilities.

This report shows that decent work is vital to reducing poverty. Poverty has tended to decline in many emerging and developing countries, whereas it has tended to increase in the majority of advanced economies, including in terms of working poverty. The report examines the role that policy can...

In his forward to this book, Marquis Childs, author of the classic work Sweden: The Middle Way, comments: "There has been a great deal of emotional writing about the effort of the labor government in Stockholm to regulate capitalism and provide a decent s

Cover -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: The Right to Social Security and National Development -- 2 Social Security and Human Rights -- Part II: Issues for the Global Society of...