What Future for Social Investment?

Institute for Futures Studies Research Report 2009/2, 101p.

This report assesses the diversity feasibility, but also the relevance of the social investment strategy in Europe. What policies have been implemented in different countries, with what success? What have been the key drivers of change or impeding factors in pursuing a social investment strategy? The report also questions whether the goals defined in 2000 are still relevant, and whether the social investment strategy can help face not only traditional European problems but also new issues created by the current crisis.

Contents

Part I. Content and Diversity of the Social Investment Strategies

1. Redesigning Citizenship Regimes after Neoliberalism. Moving Towards Social Investment
   Jane Jenson
   
   
2. Child Care and the Social Investment Model: Political Conditions for Reform
   Kimberley J. Morgan
   
   
3. Varieties of Social Investment in Labour Market Policy
   Guiliano Bonoli 
   
   
4. Human Capital Policies and the Social Investment Perspective: Explaining the Past and Anticipating the Future
   Moira Nelson & John D. Stephens
   
   
5. On the Role of Social Investment in the Learning Economy: A European Perspective
   Bengt-Åke Lundvall & Edward Lorenz
   
   
6. Towards Social Investment? Patterns of Public Policy in the OECD World
   Rita Nikolai 
   
   
7. Part II. The Future of the Social Investment Strategy. Challenges for Europe in the Context of the Current Crisis
   
   
8. Achievements and Non-achievements of the European Employment Strategy.
   Kerstin Jacobsson
   
   
9. The Future Needs for Social Investment in Ageing Populations: Sweden as a Pilot Case
   Thomas Lindh 
   
   
10. A Territorial Approach to Politics of Climate Change
    Erik Westholm
    
    
11. The European Employment Strategy in the Tempest: Restoring a Long-Term Perspective
    Bernard Gazier 
    
    
12. Social Investment after the Crisis: Political Choices for Britain and their Implications for the European Union
    Roger Liddle
    
    
13. The Quest for Sustainable Social Policies in the EU: The Crisis and Beyond
    Joakim Palme 

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