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This accessible text looks at the impact of the globalization process on social policy. National social policy is increasingly determined by global economic competition and international organizations. Its substance is becoming more and more transnational and now has to be understood in terms of global social redistribution, social regulation, social provision and empowerment. Global Social Policy examines trends in global inequity and summarizes the diverse experiences of different welfare regimes across the world. The authors review the social policies of international organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, UN Agencies and the European Union, and show them to be engaged in heated con
Introduction
Introduction
This book is about global social policy. Global social policy consists of two things: first, it is the social policy prescriptions for national social policy being articulated by global actors such as international organisations; second, it is the emerging supranational social policies and mechanisms of global redistribution, global social regulation and global social rights. This book is also about the global social governance of these two elements of global social policy.
It is a textbook for students of social policy, social development, international relations and globalisation among others. It reviews in one volume the extent to which international actors of many kinds are now involved in the formulation of social policies for countries, and in the creation of an embryonic system of supranational social policy ...
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