Global Social Policy
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With the proliferation of supranational trade agreements and the deregulation of national labour markets, calls for representative international organizations and international mechanisms aimed at improving the conditions of workers are... more
This short contribution to a Forum discussion on climate change in the journal Global Social Policy outlines how and why the climate solution requires turning away from fossil fuel dependence and how the main official approach to the... more
This article draws a conceptual map of the mechanisms, dynamics and consequences of transnational social protection (TSP) for low-skilled labour migrants and their family members. While migrants' social needs have also a transnational... more
Progress of the World's Women is UN Women's flagship report. It tracks progress on gender equality around the world, with each edition focusing on a particular theme. The 2015-2016 report is about women's economic and social... more
This chapter discusses the historical development of ‘rights’ and how these transformed into ideas about ‘universal human rights’. It shows how the concept of rights developed historically from notions of legal through to political,... more
In the present policy environment in Finland, labour migration is portrayed as a solution for the sustenance of the ageing welfare state. Research shows, however, that foreign professional qualifications are generally less valued than... more
This article examines global social policy formation in the area of skilled migration, with a focus on the Gulf Arab region. Across the globe, migration governance presents challenges to multiple levels of authority; its complexity... more
Page 1. Patients beyond borders: A study of medical tourists in four countries ... Abstract This exploratory study assesses the experiences of medical travelers seeking out of country health care in four destination countries: India,... more
In the spring 2020, measures introduced across Europe to limit the spread of COVID-19 included, among others, the temporary closure of borders. For Romanian and Slovakian live-in carers, this meant...
The remarkable dynamism of government welfare provision in Africa and in Latin America and the Caribbean is embedded in a broader context. As a legacy of the colonial past, social protection for old age and health care was generally the... more
In 1993, the Shanghai government introduced a minimum income security program, causing contagious imitative behaviors in scores of local pilot projects in China. Invigorated by such local policy experiments, the central government in 1999... more
The term ‘network’ has become prominent in many areas of public policy, including international development and global social policy. In these subject areas it is generally used to refer to the mechanisms by which those levels of... more
In May 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) set up the Commission on Social Determinants of Health to explore social and struc-tural factors that lead to ill health and influence the ability of people to lead healthy lives or gain... more
The increasing liberalization of trade, which has been accelerating apace as we move into the new millennium, has come at considerable cost to the enforcement of global social policy. Despite strenuous efforts to build social clauses into... more
In May 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) set up the Commission on Social Determinants of Health to explore social and struc-tural factors that lead to ill health and influence the ability of people to lead healthy lives or gain... more
Maintaining adequate pension levels throughout the entire retirement phase is a persistent challenge in old-age protection. Most public pension schemes in OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries provide for... more
ABSTRACT This article argues that the Economic Adjustment Programmes (EAP) that came with loans to peripheral Eurozone members Greece, Ireland, and Portugal are very similar to the loans with conditionality, also known as Structural... more