Social policy : challenges, developments and implications / Lara P. Harrison, editor.

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SOCIAL POLICY: CHALLENGES, DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS ; SOCIAL POLICY: CHALLENGES, DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; PERMANENT EMERGENCY WELFARE REGIMES & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN WEST SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ; INTRODUCTION ; SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION IN WEST SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ; From Political Independence to Economic Independence? ; The Present Economic Situation of Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Senegal8 ; Human Development in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Senegal ; PERMANENT EMERGENCY WELFARE REGIMES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.

Welfare Regime Typologies: Previous Classifications Permanent Emergency Welfare Regimes: A Summary of Key Features ; WELFARE, EMPOWERMENT AND DEMOCRACY ; Capability Approach and Well-Being ; Redistribution, Democracy and Welfare ; CONCLUSION ; ACKNOWLEDGMENT ; REFERENCES ; WELFARE HISTORY OF DENMARK ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. HISTORICAL AND CORE ISSUES UNTIL 2ND WORLD WAR ; 3. WELFARE POLICY AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR UNTIL 1970 ; 4. CRISIS AND CONTINUED EXPANSION UNTIL THE NEW MILLENNIUM ; 5. 2000 UNTIL NOW PROSPERITY AND FULL EMPLOYMENT AGAIN.

6. SOME CONCLUSIONS CONCERNING THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS REFERENCES ; THE POVERTY OF MINIMUM WAGES AS AN ANTI-POVERTY POLICY ; INTRODUCTION ; NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF MINIMUM WAGES AS AN ANTI-POVERTY DEVICE ; Many Poor do not Work or Work Few Hours or Earn Above the Minimum ; Poorly Targeted in that Spillover Effects Go to the Non- Poor ; Poverty a Family Concept ; Minimum Wage Jobs as Temporary Stepping Stones ; Badly Targeted in Terms of Who Should Pay ; Poverty can be Exacerbated by Job Loss and Reduced Hours ; Negative Effects on Education ; Negative Effects on Training.

Negative Effects on Prices of Goods Consumed by the Poor Summary of Potential Minimum Wage Effects on Poverty ; EVIDENCE ON IMPACT OF MINIMUM WAGES ON POVERTY ; Direct Estimates of Poverty Rates Regressed on Minimum Wages ; Simulation Studies and Studies of Transitions into and out of Poverty ; Summary of the Effect of Minimum Wages on Poverty ; SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS ; REFERENCES ; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: SOCIAL POLICY AND INTERVENTIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; Defining Developmental Psychopathology ; Integrating Developmental Psychopathology Research with Social Policy.

The Case of Externalizing Problems The Case of Co-Occurring Internalizing and Externalizing Problems ; CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: THE BRAZILIAN SCENARIO ; INTRODUCTION ; BACKGROUND: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, WOMEN AND POVERTY ; CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ; RESEARCH DESIGN AND RESPONDENTS ; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE COMMUNITIES ; SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ; VIOLENCE AND RELATIONSHIPS ; PRACTICE, POLICY AND PREVENTION ISSUES ; REFERENCES.

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