Taking social development seriously the experience of Sri Lanka
This work presents a historical and analytical understanding of Sri Lanka's social development. Instead of merely focusing on economic yardsticks it studies the country's development in the conceptual framework of social policy, with emphasis on the way current institutions reflect the imp...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
SAGE
2010.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31277184*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Changing ideas of social policy
- Rethinking social development
- Marshall and citizenship theorising
- The formative phase of social development in Sri Lanka
- Welfarism and democratisation in the late colonial state (1931-48)
- Consolidation of the welfare state
- Retreat from the welfare state
- Reclaiming social democracy: charting a "third way" for Sri Lanka
- Postscript: taking stock after the fall of Sri Lanka's Berlin Wall.
