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Social security in a rapidly changing environment: the case of the post-communist transformation
- Author:
- FAJTH Gaspar
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 33(4), December 1999, pp.416-436.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Overcoming the economic crisis and implementing institutional change in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union has been greatly facilitated by a pre-existing social security network - although adaptations to the new circumstances have been employed for mitigating losses in income and in social cohesion with the market form. Shows how countries first expanded, then curtailed their social programmes, and have started moving away from collective to individualised solutions, not only in the economic but also in the social field. Concludes that these experiences from the region offer valuable lessons for social programmes assisted by international exchanges that aim to counter the negative impacts of rapid economic and institutional change increasingly a worldwide phenomenon.
Community development: emerging lessons from Eastern Europe
- Authors:
- McCABE Angus, HARRIS Val
- Journal article citation:
- Talking Point, 202, August 2002, pp.1-4.
- Publisher:
- Association of Community Workers
This article draws on the work undertaken by members of the Federation of Community Work Training Groups, the University of Birmingham and other colleagues in Eastern Europe since 1999. The report explores the extent the extent to which within the UK context, approaches to regeneration have been imported from the USA, but argues that valuable lessons from emerging patterns of community development in Eastern Europe have been largely ignored.