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Reclaiming Social Policy re-evaluates the importance of social policies in the shaping of well-being and combating exclusion, and enhance critical understanding of how these policies are constituted in a globalising world. Written from a practitioner's perspective, the core concern of the book is the capacity for policy making required to protect groups from becoming excluded, promote inclusion, and avoid sharpening of trends towards marginalization. The book emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and provides a normative and practical framework for supporting social policy making.
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Reclaiming Social Policy Globalization, Social Exclusion and New Poverty Reduction Strategies
Arjan de Haan
Reclaiming Social Policy
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Reclaiming Social Policy Globalization, Social Exclusion and New Poverty Reduction Strategies Arjan de Haan Social Development Adviser, UK Department for International Development, China
© Arjan de Haan
2007
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This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Haan, Arjan de. Reclaiming social policy: globalization, social exclusion, and new poverty reduction strategies / Arjan de Haan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-230-00781-3 (cloth) 1. Social policy. 2. Developing countries–Social policy. 3. Globalization–Social aspects. 4. Marginality, Social. 5. Poverty–Government policy. 6. Structural adjustment (Economic policy)–Social aspects. I. Title. HN18.3.H33 2007 320.609172’4–dc22 2006048883 10 16
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Contents List of Tables and Figures
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Foreword
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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
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Introduction: Why Focus on Social Policy? 1.1 What is social policy? The scope of social policy 1.2 Social policy before and after structural adjustment From colonialism, to Independence, to structural adjustment Social policy in the 1980s 1.3 Why does social policy matter during g