Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries

✍ Scribed by Olli Kangas, Joakim Palme (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 347
Series: Social Policy in a Development Context
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries: An Introduction....Pages 1-16
Coming Late — Catching Up: The Formation of a ‘Nordic Model’....Pages 17-59
Voluntary State-Subsidized Social Insurance in the Advanced Industrialized World since the 1890s: The Nordic Experience in Comparative Perspective....Pages 60-87
Empowering Social Policy: The Role of Social Care Services in Modern Welfare States....Pages 88-117
Family Policy and Cross-National Patterns of Poverty....Pages 118-146
Education and Equal Life-Chances: Investing in Children....Pages 147-163
Fighting Inequalities in Health and Income: One Important Road to Welfare and Social Development....Pages 164-185
Does the Welfare State Harm Economic Growth? Sweden as a Strategic Test Case....Pages 186-209
Growth and Employment in the ‘Nordic Welfare States’ in the 1990s: a Tale of Crisis and Revival....Pages 210-240
Financing ‘Big-Tax’ Welfare States: Sweden During Crisis and Recovery....Pages 241-264
The Nordic Model of the Information Society: The Finnish Case....Pages 265-280
Does the Most Brilliant Future of the ‘Nordic Model’ Have to be in the Past?....Pages 281-298
Back Matter....Pages 299-326

✦ Subjects

Development Economics; Social Policy

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