Poverty, policy and the state: The changing face of social security

✍ Scribed by Mike O'Brien

Publisher: Policy Press
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 289
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

New Zealand has experienced both sweeping economic and social reform and growing poverty and income inequality in the last twenty years. This book explores the changes to social security provision and coverage in the context of these developments and of widening national and international poverty and inequality. The book argues that the policy initiatives have altered the nature of social security and in doing so have significantly transformed the nature of social citizenship. The author brings the New Zealand data together in a way that has not been done previously and provides the reader with both a detailed discussion of the work on poverty and living standards in New Zealand and the political and economic context within which social security changes have occurred. Linking the discussion to international changes in social security and to the international literature on poverty and inequality, the author demonstrates the important implications the New Zealand directions have for the development of social security internationally. The book will be of considerable interest for all those interested in international reshaping of state support for the poorest and most vulnerable and its development in a neoliberal and Third Way.

✦ Table of Contents

Poverty, policy and the state
Contents
List of tables and figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Part One: The contexts of reform
Introduction
Mapping the territory
Defining and measuring inequality and poverty
Facing the greatest risk ofpoverty
Poverty and low living standards
Part Two: The changing policy directions
Politics, globalisation and social security
The Fourth Labour government
National and National-ledgovernment
The early 21st century
Social security
Appendix A
Appendix B
References
Index

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