This book debates the leading social development paradigm in social policy, that of developmental social policy from a self-evaluative and critical perspective. It contains two theory chapters and case study analysis from countries in Asia. It is a must read for any scholar in development...

Low family socioeconomic position is a net of related conditions — low income, material deprivation, single-parent family structure, low educational level, minority ethnic group membership, and immigrant status. According to ecological theory, proximal contexts experienced by children,...

My essay, in a time of (political) economic crisis, re-examines the fate of the constitutive oxymoron that is political economy from Montchrétien through neoliberalism. Its hero is Adam Smith, who at the end of Book I of Wealth of Nations warns of the destructive consequences of...

Financial Inclusion is not a new phenomenon. In India, the initial efforts for Financial Inclusion can be traced in the 1904 with the beginning of the co-operative movement. Many researchers worked on Financial Inclusion, after reviewing the literature we identified, number of plans and...

The social policy of a country is a set of specific measures that are aimed at regulating social relations between subjects that are different in their social status. This approach to understanding social policy is also called the functional approach and, in fact, it considers social policy as...

Purpose The purpose of the research is to develop the algorithm of transition of modern socio-economic systems to “conflict-free” path of development, which would be universal and would take into account specifics of each separate system. Methodology The methodology of the chapter includes a...

section I. Financing the growth -- section II. Competing models : the Gulf Arab states and Iran -- section III. Labor constraints and migration issues -- section IV. The role of women in industrialization -- section V. Gulf industrialization in perspective.