The economic implications of aging societies

the costs of living happily ever after

The world is getting older and no one knows exactly what life will be like in tomorrow#s older societies. But we do know that age dependency ratios - the ratio of retirees to workers - will be much higher than we see today. The implications of ...

Los nuevos rostros de la marginalidad

la supervivencia de los desplazados

La marginalidad, la exclusión y la pobreza se han reconfigurado a la par de las transformaciones sociales y económicas que ha vivido la Argentina en los últimos años: piqueteros, cartoneros, beneficiarios de planes sociales, trabajadores de fábricas recuperadas, vendedores ambulantes, trabajadoras sexuales, talleristas, etc; nuevos ...

Minimum wages and poverty

an evaluation of policy alternatives

This research investigates the impact of three equal cost alternative labor market policies on the economic well-being of low-income families and society in general at the turn of the 21st century. The principal focus is on how changes in the minimum wage, Earned Income Tax ...

Nonprofit essentials

the capital campaign

Nonprofit Essentials provides a thorough and practical overview of the process of planning and managing a capital campaign. In lively discussions, independent consultant Julia Walker shares the tips, techniques, and programs that have helped her raise more than USD600 million in capital campaigns.

Las necesidades de formación del Tercer Sector

su medición y programación desde la perspectiva europea

Economics of health care financing

the visible hand

Economía social y nuevas tecnologías

Welfare economics

towards a more complete analysis

Yew Kwang Ng looks to make welfare economics more complete by discussing the recent inframarginal analysis of division of labour and by pushing welfare economics from the level of preference to that of happiness, making a reformulation of the foundation of public policy necessary. A ...

Economia civile

efficienza, equità, felicità pubblica

Molti paradossi del mondo globale - disuguaglianze territoriali e individuali, crescita senza occupazione, aumento del reddito pro capite ma non della qualità della vita - hanno più a che fare con situazioni di scarsità sociale che materiale. Eppure le due visioni dominanti del rapporto tra sfera economica ...

Inequality and the State

Economía social y género

El Estado social

En una primera parte se aborda la investigación teórica del Estado social conectándola con la teoría de los fines del Estado, analizando los posibles antecedentes y exponiendo un primer intento descriptivo. Posteriormente, se estudia su incidencia en las relaciones Estado-Sociedad, en la sociedad post-industrial, en ...

Exclusión social y estado del bienestar

Exclusión social y estado de bienestar.- Tendencias en la desigualdad de la renta.- Las políticas redistributivas.- La pobreza: problemas conceptuales y de medición.- Factores explicativos de la pobreza.- principales tendencias de la pobreza.- Las políticas contra la pobreza: conceptos básicos.- Las políticas contra la pobreza ...

Generating and sustaining nonprofit earned income

a guide to succesful enterprise strategies

Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, this comprehensive guide identifies best practices for generating a reliable income stream and ultimately reducing nonprofit organizations' dependence on traditional sources of funding. Edited by renowned scholar and consultant Sharon Oster and Cynthia Massarsky and Samantha Beinhacker, deputy directors of ...

Public health

what it is and how it works

This book is a straightforward introduction to the complex, multidimensional field of public health and how it functions in modern day America.

Quality health care

a guide to developing and using indicators

Written by an internationally-recognized expert in the field of quality management, this book will serve as your guide for planning and implementing a successful quality measurement program in your healthcare facility. It begins by presenting an overview of the context for quality measurement, the forces ...

Welfare state change

towards a Third Way?

Contents/contributors Part 1: Policy Contexts and Concepts 1 Rebecca Surender: Modern Challenges to the Welfare State and the Antecedents of the Third Way 2 Stuart White: Welfare Philosophy and the Third Way 3 Giuliano Bonoli and Martin Powell: One Third Way or Several? Part ...

Redes sociales y construcción comunitaria

creando (con)textos para una acción ecológica

En un tiempo en que el pensamiento único y la tecnocracia parecen querer colonizar el complejo y concurrido universo de la acción social,este libro reivindica la necesidad de recuperar,a través de las prácticas comunitarias,la capacidad crítica,creativa,comprometida y transformadora del trabajo ...

Social Europe

living standars and welfare states

Social Europe analyses the diverse dynamics of the lives of people across Europe. It is the first quantitative analysis of its kind to make a systematic comparison of life chances across the fifteen countries of the EU. This wide perspective enables the researchers to illustrate ...

A handbook of comparative social policy

The current context of social policy is one in which many of the old certainties of the past have been eroded. The predominantly inward-looking, domestic preoccupation of social policy has made way for a more integrated, international and outward approach to analysis which looks beyond ...