Handbook of Social Policy and Development

Edited by the late James Midgley, formerly Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley, US, Rebecca Surender, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK and Laura Alfers, Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Rhodes University, South Africa and Director, Social Protection Programme, WIEGO, UK

• Contents:Introduction to the Handbook of Social Policy and Development James Midgley, Rebecca Surender and Laura AlfersPART I SOCIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT: ORIGINS AND PROGRESSION1. Social policy and development: an overviewJames Midgley2. The social policy nexus and development: convergence, divergence and dynamic changeRebecca SurenderPART II KEY ISSUES AND DEBATES3. Shaping society from below: social movements, social policy and development Laura Alfers4. Gender: toward gender equality and poverty reduction Leila Patel5. Global social policy in a development context: ideas, actors and implementation Huck-ju Kwon6. The SDGs: towards a social development approach in the 2030 Agenda? Marian Urbina-Ferretjans7. Social and human rights Hartley Dean8. Social policy and urban development Jo Beall9. Rural development Amrita Datta10. The environment and development: fight against poverty and/or protection of the environment – a conflict of interests? Karl Falkenberg11. Security and development Dina Kiwan12. World-regional social governance, policy and development Nicola Yeates13. The informal economy and informal employmentFrancie Lund14. Employment-based social protection: ‘productivism’, universalism and social citizenship Michael Rogan and Laura AlfersPART III SERVICES, PROGRAMMES AND POLICY SECTORS15. Health and developmentAmrit Virk16. Education, social policy and development Mayumi Terano17. Housing, development and social justice James Lee18. Social insurance, pensions and developmentJames Midgley19. Social assistance, poverty and development James Midgley20. Conditional income transfers, social policy and development Armando Barrientos21. Social work and family servicesAntoinette Lombard22 Financial inclusion and microfinancePhilip Mader and Solène Morvant-Roux23. Community development programmes Manohar Pawar24. NGOs and their role in the welfare mixRoosa JolkkonenIndex

'If you read one book to understand current scholarship on social policy and development in the global south, this should be it. Lucid and comprehensive, it is encyclopaedic in scope. The role of the state is set out and powerfully defended. The bunkers into which the social sciences and policy-making have been artificially divided are exposed and questioned. Robert Kennedy said that GDP measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile: this book covers a large part of what makes life worthwhile.'--David Piachaud, London School of Economics, UK