The financial crisis of 1997-98 in East and Southeast Asia has raised questions about sustainability of some hitherto admired modes of poverty reduction. But this paper argues that there remain important lessons to learn from Asia's great ascent out of poverty since the Second World War. It...

This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world. It emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and...

This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world. It emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and...