Rediscovering the Developmentalist-Productive Roots of Welfare State Policies.
Persistent calls for social investment-oriented social policy suggest that existing social policies are unsustainable and need radical rethinking. Instead, this paper argues that we need to better understand how long-standing policies have enabled society's adaptation to socioeconomic changes and fo...
| Published in: | Social Development Issues (Social Development Issues) Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 46 - 77 |
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2024
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