Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South: Challenges and Innovations in Emerging Economies

Bristol : Policy Press, 2024.

The book sheds light on innovative solutions, new approaches and novel experiences in the Global South –
while posing the question what it means to be novel or transformative. More specifically, this book asks where to look for new inspiration in social policy making, and what actors or factors to study. The selection of case studies
reflects an encompassing take on social problems and global crises to which social policies respond using a wide range of different countries in different world-regions that are not frequently explored in the study of social policy.
Taken together, these case studies, as well as the more conceptual chapters, allow for a truly new and global perspective on what can be studied and learned from countries of the Global South that goes way beyond “South-
to-South” learning and exchange.

Chapters

NGOs in the Context of the Reform of Social Services in Russia

Cook L., Iarskaia-Smirnova E. R., , in: Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South: Challenges and Innovations in Emerging Economies.: Bristol: Policy Press, 2024. P. 248–267.

This chapter addresses development and change in Russia’s social policies since 2005. We focus on three areas that have undergone significant reform: policies toward people with disabilities, child welfare and outsourcing of social service delivery to SONPOs (socially oriented nonprofit organizations). In these areas, the Russian government has adopted potentially transformative changes, moving away from ...

Added: September 16, 2024

Keywords: social policy, Global South, actors and institutions