Three Making growth inclusive: perspectives on the role of social policy in developing economies
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Sarah Cook
Abstract
Remaking the relationship between paid work and welfare looms as the central challenge for an inclusive growth regime. Neoliberal economic policies created a legacy of high unemployment and precarity that has not been addressed by the social investment approach with its purely supply side focus. Inclusive growth insists that paid work must underpin a sustainable welfare regime. But how can this be done given the state of current labour markets? This chapter reconsiders the paid work welfare nexus.
Abstract
Remaking the relationship between paid work and welfare looms as the central challenge for an inclusive growth regime. Neoliberal economic policies created a legacy of high unemployment and precarity that has not been addressed by the social investment approach with its purely supply side focus. Inclusive growth insists that paid work must underpin a sustainable welfare regime. But how can this be done given the state of current labour markets? This chapter reconsiders the paid work welfare nexus.
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
