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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.
The interface between social work and social policy
- Editor:
- RAMON Shulamit
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Focuses on the inter relationship between social work and social policy. Includes papers on: placing social work within social theory and political practice; community as a basis for social policy and social action; the role of the supra state in organisation shaping - the case of the European Union; social stratification and differentiation of incomes in Russia; redistributing wealth and power between the state and individual entrepreneurs in Armenia; introducing new professions - social work in Russia; the emergence and development of the non profit sector in Hungary; advocacy as a policy and practice issue; changing cultures of care in the two Germanies; approaches to deinstitutionalisation in Western and Eastern Europe; the rediscovery of child neglect and abuse; comprehending and responding to elder abuse; and social integration of children with disabilities in India.