Twelve Social politics puzzling: governance for inclusive growth and social investment
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Jane Jenson
Abstract
Analysts of social policy often pay more attention to the content of social policy than to its governance. It is important to assess both. Policy communities currently link the concepts of social investment and social entrepreneurship to advocate both where and how to intervene to ensure inclusive growth.The argument of the chapter is that the explicit linking of these two notions by policy-makers at several scales of authority constitutes an emerging policy paradigm. Despite variation across countries and levels (a characteristic of any paradigm) policy communities proffer the quasi-concepts of social investment and social entrepreneurship in combination as the appropriate ways to govern financing and delivery of social investments and ensure inclusive growth.
Abstract
Analysts of social policy often pay more attention to the content of social policy than to its governance. It is important to assess both. Policy communities currently link the concepts of social investment and social entrepreneurship to advocate both where and how to intervene to ensure inclusive growth.The argument of the chapter is that the explicit linking of these two notions by policy-makers at several scales of authority constitutes an emerging policy paradigm. Despite variation across countries and levels (a characteristic of any paradigm) policy communities proffer the quasi-concepts of social investment and social entrepreneurship in combination as the appropriate ways to govern financing and delivery of social investments and ensure inclusive growth.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures v
- List of boxes and tables vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Notes on contributors xi
- Introduction and overview 1
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Theoretical frameworks
- Social investment, inclusive growth that is sustainable and the new global social policy 11
- Taking social investment seriously in developed economies 45
- Making growth inclusive: perspectives on the role of social policy in developing economies 77
- The challenges of inclusive growth for the developmental welfare state 99
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Policy applications
- Measuring and monitoring inclusive growth in developing and advanced economies: multiple definitions, open questions and some constructive proposals 123
- Towards an employment strategy of inclusive growth 145
- Active labour market policies for an inclusive growth 169
- Education and skills for inclusive growth 189
- Inclusive growth and social investments over the life course 213
- Inclusive economic growth for health equity: in search of the elusive evidence 229
- Social protection, social investment and inclusive development 251
- Social politics puzzling: governance for inclusive growth and social investment 273
- Limits to Growth revisited 295
- Conclusion: towards a new global social policy framework? 323
- Index 343
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures v
- List of boxes and tables vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Notes on contributors xi
- Introduction and overview 1
-
Theoretical frameworks
- Social investment, inclusive growth that is sustainable and the new global social policy 11
- Taking social investment seriously in developed economies 45
- Making growth inclusive: perspectives on the role of social policy in developing economies 77
- The challenges of inclusive growth for the developmental welfare state 99
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Policy applications
- Measuring and monitoring inclusive growth in developing and advanced economies: multiple definitions, open questions and some constructive proposals 123
- Towards an employment strategy of inclusive growth 145
- Active labour market policies for an inclusive growth 169
- Education and skills for inclusive growth 189
- Inclusive growth and social investments over the life course 213
- Inclusive economic growth for health equity: in search of the elusive evidence 229
- Social protection, social investment and inclusive development 251
- Social politics puzzling: governance for inclusive growth and social investment 273
- Limits to Growth revisited 295
- Conclusion: towards a new global social policy framework? 323
- Index 343
