Social Welfare: Policies, Perspectives and Challenges ( Social Issues, Justice and Status )

Publication series :Social Issues, Justice and Status

Author: Miranda L. Presley  

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9781633212077

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781633212060

Subject: C913.7 Social welfare, social relief, social security

Keyword: Sociology

Language: ENG

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Social Welfare: Policies, Perspectives and Challenges

Chapter

1. Introduction

2. Arrovian Social Choice

2.1. The Axiomatic Set-Up

2.2. The Spread of Decisiveness

2.3. A Possibility Result

3. Positionalist Aggregation

3.1. Ranking Rules of Various Types

3.2. Manipulability

3.3. Lack of Responsiveness

4. A Richer Informational Framework

5. Wicked Problems in Social Choice

6. Empirical Social Choice

6.1. Preliminaries

6.2. Needs, Tastes, and Beliefs

6.3. Rawls’s Equity Axiom

Conclusion

References

Chapter 3: Conditions for the Benefit from and Need for Social Welfare in Hong Kong

Abstract

Expected Impacts of Social Welfare on Life Satisfaction

Hypothesis 1

Hypothesis 1.1

Hypothesis 1.2

Study in Hong Kong

Method

Participants

Measurement

Procedures

Results

Discussion

Future Research

Implications

References

Chapter 4: Safety Net Reconstruction: Reform and Development of Social Assistance in China

Abstract

Introduction

Background of Safety Net Reconstruction

in China

The Rediscovery of Urban Poverty

The Condition of Rural Poverty

Process of Safety Net Reconstruction in China

Establishment and Evolution of MLSGS

Emergence and Development of Special Assistance Programs

Reform and Development of Social Assistance: Political Actions on Poverty

Conclusion

References

Chapter 5: Government Preference, Import Tariffs and Social Welfare

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Mixed Oligopoly with Foreign Competitors

3. The Order of Moves and Equilibrium Outcomes

Case I: Domestic Leadership

Case II: Foreign Leadership

Case III: Cournot Competition

Conclusion

Appendix I. Proof of Proposition 3

References

Chapter 6: Social Safety Nets Reloaded: An Analysis of the Second Generation Safety Nets in Africa

Abstract

Introduction

Growth, Poverty, Inequality and Vulnerability in Africa

Risks and Vulnerability from Weak Employment Structure

Social Safety Nets (SSN)-Reloaded: The Second Generation Safety Nets

From Social Risk Management to Second Generation SSN

SSN Debates

Rationale for SSN

SSN-Reloaded in Africa

The Social Safety Net Landscape in Africa

Status of SSN-Reloaded in Africa

Current SSN Programmes in Africa

Cash Transfers

School Feeding Programmes

Public Works Programmes

Assets Protection and Building Programmes

Features of SSN-Reloaded in Africa

Conclusion

References

Index

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