Las necesidades de formación del Tercer Sector

su medición y programación desde la perspectiva europea

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 ...

Economics of health care financing

the visible hand

Economía social y nuevas tecnologías

Inequality and the State

Economía social y género

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Pobreza y exclusión social en el Principado de Asturias

The emrgence of social enterprise

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 ...

New risk, new welfare

the transformation of the European welfare state

This book, based on brand new data from a major study and long-standing collaboration between a number of prominent European scholars, provides a fresh perspective on the future of the welfare state across the EU. Through detailed case-study analysis, it analyses the emergence of new ...

Social Security Programs and retirement around the world

micro-estimation