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his report presents a brief summary of Latin America and the Caribbean progress in attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), some suggestions to adapt the MDG agenda to the realities and stages of development of the countries of the region, a summary of recent Inter-American Development Bank activities to support the MDGs, and some reflections on priorities for the period to 2015 and beyond.
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This book examines the resurgence in Australia of locality-based social policy (concerned with the spatial dimensions of disadvantage), after the political failures of the market oriented approach to regional reform. The book proposes that these trends are leading to a new 'post-competition' policy regime in Australia that mirrors global policy trends.
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La politique sociale est souvent dénigrée au motif qu’elle est un fardeau pour la société. On lui reproche également de saper l’esprit d’entreprise, de décourager le travail et l’épargne et de favoriser la dépendance à l’égard de l’État. Une politique sociale mal conçue peut effectivement avoir des effets négatifs, mais une politique sociale mal conçue n’est pas une fatalité. Nous disposons depuis quelques années d’un ensemble de plus en plus riche d’observations qui nous montre quels sont les programmes efficaces pour améliorer les conditions sociales et ceux qui ne le sont pas. Lorsqu’elle est bien conçue, la protection sociale n’est pas un lourd héritage du passé, mais un atout vital à l’appui du développement social. La protection sociale jouera d'ailleurs inévitablement un rôle croissant à l’avenir, étant donné que le progrès technologique, l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie et la mondialisation décuplent non seulement les opportunités offertes aux individus qui sont bien dotés en qualifications et en ressources, mais aussi les difficultés de ceux qui sont moins bien lotis. Toutefois, pour que la protection sociale tienne toutes ses promesses, il faut qu’elle anticipe les événements, afin de pouvoir relever les défis qui se dessinent en ce XXIe siècle, plutôt que de rechercher des solutions aux problèmes du passé. Il faut qu’elle soit consciente des nouveaux besoins des individus et des familles, ainsi que des nouvelles entraves à leur fonctionnement. Les programmes efficaces doivent bénéficier de nouveaux moyens pour atteindre leurs objectifs, démultiplier les initiatives d’une myriade d’acteurs et associer les bénéficiaires à tous les stades de leur conception et de leur réalisation. Dans l’analyse des réponses possibles à ces défis, cet ouvrage met en avant la notion de politiques sociales actives. Cette notion souligne l’importance de réorienter les priorités des programmes sociaux. Il s’agit moins d’assurer les individus contre un certain nombre d’aléas bien définis que d’investir dans leurs capacités et de leur permettre d’utiliser au mieux leur potentiel à tous les stades de l’existence. Pour cela, il faudra élargir les rôles joués par les individus, les employeurs et les syndicats, ainsi que par les prestataires de services sociaux à but lucratif et bénévoles dans le cadre d’un système de protection sociale plus ambitieux.
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""This document offers an excellent explanation of the concept of empowerment and develops a very useful framework for disentangling and clarifying the concept. It is both practical and well justified on the basis of the literature. The approach and survey instruments developed to measure empowerment are innovative and very useful. Developing an approach to empirically measure empowerment, and to track empowerment indicators over time in a way that is operationally feasible and consistent with World Bank standards is certainly an outstanding achievement.""Reginer Birner, Senior Research Fellow
Methods in social research (general) --- Community organization --- Social policy --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- Nepal --- Ethiopia --- Honduras --- Brazil --- Community development. --- Social planning. --- Economic development --- Citizen participation. --- Social development planning --- Planning --- Community development --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Citizen participation --- Government policy
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Over 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger, and over ten million children die each year from preventable causes. These may seem like overwhelming statistics, but as Stephen Smith shows in this call to arms, global poverty is something that we can and should solve within our lifetimes. Ending Global Poverty explores the various traps that keep people mired in poverty, traps like poor nutrition, illiteracy, lack of access to health care, and others and presents eight keys to escaping these traps. Smith gives readers the tools they need to help people overcome poverty and to determine what approaches are most effective in fighting it. For example, celebrities in commercials who encourage viewers to "adopt" a poor child really seem to care, but will sending money to these organizations do the most good? Smith explains how to make an informed decision. Grass-roots programs and organizations are helping people gain the capabilities they need to escape from poverty and this book highlights many of the most promising of these strategies in some of the poorest countries in the world, explaining what they do and what makes them effective.
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Social planning --- Older people --- Poor --- Family policy --- Planification sociale --- Personnes âgées --- Pauvres --- Politique familiale --- Government policy --- Politique gouvernementale --- OECD countries --- Pays de l'OCDE --- Social policy --- Politique sociale
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