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Social organizations and community service delivery in China

Li, Bingqin; Fang, Lijie - 2018

This paper examines the primary social changes in China that posed major challenges to its social service delivery and the government responses to these challenges. It argues that introducing social organizations into the social service delivery system unavoidably departs from the previous...

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Stabilizing networks? : social organizations and old-age services in urban communities in China

Li, Bingqin; Fang, Lijie; Hu, Bo - 2018

This paper examines the characteristics of old-age services, and show that delivering social services involves a complex system that can only be achieved with the participation and coordination of multiple stakeholders. This means that the system is unavoidably a network of stakeholders,...

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Social policy and social spending in Zimbabwe : 1980 to 2015

Mate, Rekopantswe - 2018

This paper examines social policy in the first three decades of Zimbabwe's independence. The analysis provides answers to four sets of questions: What is the historical background of social policies in Zimbabwe and how has social spending evolved over time? What are the key institutions...

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Regulating ‘Illegal Work’ in China

Zou, Mimi - 2018

The Exit and Entry Administration Law 2013 (EEAL) in China has been widely considered to be a major step forward in developing a more comprehensive legal regulatory regime for dealing with the rising inflow of foreigners to the country in recent decades. Situated in a policy discourse aimed at...

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Towards a green public bank in the public interest : paper prepared for the UNRISD session at the Resilience 2017 Conference

Marois, Thomas - 2018

Four decades of neoliberal market fundamentalism and its relentless assault on the public sector and our understandings of publicness have generated a profound crisis of social reproduction and environmental sustainability. Private sector financial solutions and market signals have not tackled...

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Incorporating informal workers into twenty-first century social contracts

Agarwala, Rina - 2018

This paper draws from an ongoing cross-national comparative project of informal workers' movements across eight countries of the global North and South to offer an initial framework of contemporary trends in informal workers' movements. Our findings suggest that present-day informal workers are...

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A political economy analysis of domestic resource mobilization in Uganda : prepared for the UNRISD project on Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development

Kjær, Anne Mette; Ulriksen, Marianne S.; Kangave, Jalia; … - 2017

the UNRISD Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development project, which addresses three broad themes …: bargaining and contestation, key relations, and institution building with regard to mobilizing resources for social development … voters and introducing tax exemptions for powerful supporters. On the spending side, social development concerns compete with …

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Moving towards redistributive and transformative social security? : gendered social and economic outcomes in South Africa : prepared for the UNRISD project New Directions in Social Policy: Alternatives from and for the Global South

Plagerson, Sophie; Hochfeld, Tessa; Stuart, Lauren - 2017

This paper explores whether South Africa’s social security policies offer consistent, synergistic and long-term positive impacts on poverty and gender, by interrogating the redistributive and transformative outcomes of three different kinds of social security instruments. The instruments...

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Political and institutional drivers of social security policy in South Africa : prepared for the UNRISD project New Directions in Social Policy: Alternatives from and for the Global South

Ulriksen, Marianne S.; Plagerson, Sophie - 2017

This paper provides an analysis of political and institutional drivers that shape social policy in South Africa with a specific focus on social security. As elsewhere in the Global South, South Africa has a quite extensive social assistance framework, whereas social insurance is limited and...

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The controversial Brazilian welfare regime : prepared for the UNRISD project New Directions in Social Policy: Alternatives from and for the Global South

Lavinas, Lena; Gentil, Denise; Cobo, Barbara - 2017

The turn of the century brought encouragement and hope for many emerging economies undergoing a new phase of growth, with falling inequality and a promising push towards greater social inclusion. Within this trend of economic recovery and increased equity, Latin America would stand out, with...

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