Handbook of Social Policy and Development

500 Pages·2019·6.416 MB·English

by  James Midgley (editor), Rebecca Surender (editor), Laura Alfers (editor)

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HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL POLICY AND
DEVELOPMENT
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Handbook of Social Policy
and Development
Edited by
James Midgley
Harry and Riva Specht Professor Emeritus and Professor
of the Graduate School, School of Social Welfare,
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Rebecca Surender
Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK
Laura Alfers
Research Associate in Sociology, Rhodes University,
South Africa
Cheltenham, UK + Northampton, MA, USA
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© James Midgley, Rebecca Surender and LauraAlfers 2019
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
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permission of the publisher.
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A catalogue record for this book
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2018967821
This book is available electronically in the
Social and Political Science subject collection
DOI 10.4337/9781785368431
ISBN 978 1 78536 842 4 (cased)
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Contents
List of contributors vii
Introduction to the Handbook of Social Policy and Development 1
James Midgley, Rebecca Surender and Laura Alfers
PART I SOCIAL POLICYAND DEVELOPMENT: ORIGINS
AND PROGRESSION
1 Social policy and development: an overview 14
James Midgley
2 The social policy nexus and development: convergence,
divergence and dynamic change 35
Rebecca Surender
PART II KEY ISSUESAND DEBATES
3 Shaping society from below: social movements, social policy
and development 54
Laura Alfers
4 Gender: toward gender equality and poverty reduction 71
Leila Patel
5 Global social policy in a development context: ideas, actors
and implementation 89
Huck-ju Kwon
6 The SDGs: towards a social development approach in the
2030Agenda? 111
Marian Urbina-Ferretjans
7 Social and human rights 130
Hartley Dean
8 Social policy and urban development 147
Jo Beall
9 Rural development 169
Amrita Datta
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10 The environment and development: fight against poverty
and/or protection of the environment – a conflict of interests? 188
Karl Falkenberg
11 Security and development 206
Dina Kiwan
12 World-regional social governance, policy and development 224
NicolaYeates
13 The informal economy and informal employment 246
Francie Lund
14 Employment-based social protection: ‘productivism’,
universalism and social citizenship 265
Michael Rogan and Laura Alfers
PART III SERVICES, PROGRAMMESAND POLICY
SECTORS
15 Health and development 283
Amrit Virk
16 Education, social policy and development 300
Mayumi Terano
17 Housing, development and social justice 316
James Lee
18 Social insurance, pensions and development 333
James Midgley
19 Social assistance, poverty and development 352
James Midgley
20 Conditional income transfers, social policy and development 373
Armando Barrientos
21 Social work and family services 393
Antoinette Lombard
22 Financial inclusion and microfinance 411
Philip Mader and Solène Morvant-Roux
23 Community development programmes 431
Manohar Pawar
24 NGOs and their role in the welfare mix 451
Roosa Jolkkonen
Index 469
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Contributors
LauraAlfers is a ResearchAssociate in the Department of Sociology at
Rhodes University in South Africa and the Director of the Social
Protection Programme at the global action-research-policy network
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO).
Laura’s research interests centre on the intersections of social policy,
urban policy and employment, particularly informal employment. Her
most recent articles appear in the International Social Security Review,
Environment and Urbanization and Agenda.
Armando Barrientos is Emeritus Professor of Poverty and Social
JusticeattheGlobalDevelopmentInstituteattheUniversityofManches-
ter in the UK. His research interests focus on the linkages existing
betweenwelfareprogrammesandlabourmarketsindevelopingcountries,
and on policies addressing poverty, vulnerability and population ageing.
His most recent books are Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest
(co-editor with D. Hulme, Palgrave, 2008); Just Give Money to the Poor
(co-authorwithJ.HanlonandD.Hulme,KumarianPress,2010)andSocial
AssistanceinDevelopingCountries(CambridgeUniversityPress,2015).
Jo Beall is a Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. Her expertise lies in
international development policy, particularly in the context of cities. She
was formerly on the Executive Board of the British Council, DeputyVice
Chancellor at University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Professor in
International Development at the LSE. Her specialist research interests
are gender and social development; urban development and governance;
and cities in conflict-affected states. She has significant research experi-
ence in South Africa, Pakistan and Afghanistan and has also undertaken
research and policy advice in Colombia, Bangladesh, India, and in a
number of African countries.
Amrita Datta is an Assistant Professor of Development Studies at the
Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.
Amrita’s research interests are in the areas of rural–urban migration,
gender and development, and village and longitudinal studies. Her
research has been published in several edited volumes and journals such
as the Journal of Development Studies, Children’s Geographies, Indian
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Journal of Labour Economics and the Economic and Political Weekly.
She was an Associate Editor of the Indian Journal of Human Develop-
ment from 2014–16.
Hartley Dean is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. His 30-year academic
career was preceded by a 12-year career as a welfare rights worker in a
deprived multicultural inner-London neighbourhood, which is where the
practical foundations of his commitment to social policy were laid. The
focus of his teaching and research has stemmed from his concerns with
poverty, social justice and welfare rights. He is now part-retired, but
currently working to produce an extensively revised edition of his earlier
work on Understanding Human Need (first published by Policy Press,
2010). His other recent publications include: Social Policy (Polity, 2006,
2012 and 2018, plus Chinese language editions), Social Rights and
Human Welfare (Routledge, 2015), Social Advantage and Disadvantage
(co-editor with L. Platt, Oxford University Press, 2016). He is a past
editor of the Journal of Social Policy.
KarlFalkenberghasbeenaEuropeanUnion(EU)officialforthelast40
years, responsible for both international trade negotiations and environ-
mental policies. He represented the EU in the Rio+20 Conference and
participatedasSeniorNegotiatorinthenegotiationsfortheestablishment
of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He wrote a report to
the EU Commission on the implementation of the SDGs in the EU, titled
‘Sustainability Now’. He was attached to Oxford University, UK as a
Senior Fellow and now works as an independent consultant and lecturer
on sustainability issues.
Roosa Jolkkonen is a DPhil candidate/researcher at the Department of
Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford, UK. Her
research interests comprise third sector actors, transnational social policy
transfer and social policies in the Global South, with a regional focus on
sub-Saharan Africa. Her doctoral study examines contemporary philan-
thropic development aid and the distinctiveness of its social policy
influence within the changing aid landscape. She has previously worked
in research positions at national and international institutions.
DinaKiwanisReaderinComparativeEducation,UniversityofBirming-
ham,UK.In2015–2016,shewastheCentreforLebaneseStudiesFellow
at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK; and previously was
Associate Professor in Sociology at the American University of Beirut,
Lebanon, from 2012 to 2016. Her research programme focuses on
citizenship and inclusion, and is interdisciplinary and comparative in
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scope. Her interests centre around sociological and politico-philosophical
examinations of inclusive citizenship through the lens of education
policy, naturalization policy and migration policy, in particular in the
context of pluralist and multicultural societies, and also societies in
conflict.This critical policy analysis is complemented by the study of the
‘marginalized’ and ‘vulnerable’ and how they constitute themselves as
politicalactors.HerbookEducationforInclusiveCitizenship(Routledge,
2008) was awarded Second Prize for Best Book in Education published
in 2008 by the Society for Educational Studies.
Huck-juKwonisProfessoratGraduateSchoolofPublicAdministration,
andtheAsiaDevelopmentInstitute,SeoulNationalUniversity,Korea.His
research interest is in global social policy, international development
cooperationandpoliticaltheoryofsocialpolicy.Heisco-editorofGlobal
Social Policy. His publications include ‘Poverty Reduction and Good
Governance’ (Development and Change 45(2), 2014), Transforming the
Developmental Welfare State in East Asia (Palgrave, 2005), and ‘Impli-
cations of the Sustainable Development Goals for Global Social Policy’
(Global Social Policy 17(2), 2017).
James Lee is formerly Professor and Head of the Department ofApplied
Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He specializes
in comparative housing and social policy in East Asia. His research
focuses on home ownership, asset-based housing policy and social
development with a special interest on institutional arrangements facili-
tating both social and economic objectives. He publishes in international
journals such as Housing Studies, Pacific Review, Policy and Politics,
Environment and Planning and Economic Geography. His representative
books include Social Policy and Change in East Asia (Lexington Books,
2014), The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia (Lexington Books, 2007),
Housing and Social Change: East West Perspectives (Routledge, 2003)
and Housing, Home Ownership and Social Change in Hong Kong
(Ashgate, 1999).
Antoinette Lombard is Professor in Social Work and Head of the
Department of Social Work and Criminology at the University of
Pretoria, South Africa. Her research focus includes developmental social
work and social development. She has a keen research interest in social
work’scontributiontosustainabledevelopment.Herresearchhascontrib-
uted to the conceptualization of developmental social work in South
Africa. In 2015, she received a national award from the Minister of
Science and Technology as the second runner-up of the Distinguished
Women in ScienceAward (WISA) in the category Humanities and Social
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