Social Investment and Social Welfare

Edited by the late James Midgley, formerly Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley, US, Espen Dahl, Professor of Health and Social Policy, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway and Amy Conley Wright, Associate Professor of Social Work and Director of the Institute of Open Adoption Studies, University of Sydney, Australia

• Contents:Preface IntroductionJames Midgley, Espen Dahl and Amy Conley Wright1. Social Investment: Concepts, Uses and Theoretical PerspectivesJames Midgley2. Social Investment in Early Childhood in AustraliaAmy Conley Wright3. Housing and Social Investment: Lessons from Hong Kong and SingaporeJames Lee4. Social Investments and Poor Families in India: The Role of Early Childhood and Employment ProgrammesSony Pellissery5. Employment Policy and Social Investment in NorwayEspen Dahl and Thomas Lorentzen6. The Child Support Grant in South Africa: Gender, Care and Social InvestmentLeila Patel7. Investing in Communities in the United States: Social Capital, Asset Building and Local EnterpriseJames Midgley8. Cash Transfers as Social Investments: The Brazilian CaseAnthony Hall9. Pension Reform in China: Towards Social InvestmentJoe C.B. Leung and Yuebin Xu10. A Critical Perspective on Child Care and Social Investment in Norway: Whats in Children’s Best Interest?Knut Halvorsen, Amy Østertun Geirdal and Anne Grete Tøge11. Social Investment as a Means of Integrating Immigrants in EuropeSteinar Stjernø12. Social Investment and the International Development OrganizationsSarah Cook13. Conclusion: Lessons Learned and Future DirectionsJames Midgley, Espen Dahl and Amy Conley WrightIndex

‘This edited book of readings is both a valuable and essential publication that will inform and inspire academics and practitioners in the fields of social sciences, social work and development studies to continue exploring and refining both the conceptual and practical layers for effecting social investment as an intervention.’