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After '08, social policy and the global financial crisis, edited by Stephen McBride, Rianne Mahon, and Gerard W. Boychuk

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After '08

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edited by Stephen McBride, Rianne Mahon, and Gerard W. Boychuk

social policy and the global financial crisis

The global financial crisis of 2007-08 shook the economic foundations of nations, collapsed large financial institutions, and wiped out the livelihoods of millions of people. The crisis also marked a turning point for social policy, as world leaders were forced to take an ideological position: Should they pursue a neo-liberal response to the crisis through austerity measures, increased privatization, and greater deregulation? Or should they implement alternative policies to challenge the dominant neo-liberal paradigm? After '08 examines how key global institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and International Labour Organization, as well as nation states around the world responded to the crisis. Comparing the experience of countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America, contributors gauge the extent to which the neo-liberal landscape has shifted since the onset of the financial crisis and explore the directions social policy has taken. Did solutions to the crisis follow a similar trajectory across countries and regions? Or did the diversity in national experiences produce a diversity of policy responses? And, if the latter, where did alternatives to neo-liberalism emerge? --, Provided by Publisher

Introduction / Rianne Mahon, Gerard W. Boychuk, and Stephen McBride -- Part 1: Context 1 Neo-Liberalism in Question? / Stephen McBride -- 2 Broadening the Frame: Inclusive Growth and the Social Investment Perspective / Jane Jenson -- 3 A New Era for Social Policy? Welfare States and the Financial Crisis / Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving Part 2: International Organizations -- 4 Understanding Policy Change as Position-Taking: The IMF and Social Policies in Times of Crisis / Antje Vetterlein -- 5 The ILO and Social Protection Policy after the Global Financial Crisis: A Challenge to the World Bank / Bob Deacon -- 6 The ILO, Greece, and Social Dialogue in the Aftermath of the GFC / Nigel Haworth and Steve Hughes -- 7 It Takes Two to Tango: Conditional Cash Transfers, Social Policy, and the Globalizing Role of the World Bank / Anthony Hall -- Part 3: Emerging Areas -- 8 Integrating the Social into CEPAL's Neo-Structuralist Discourse / Rianne Mahon -- 9 The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Mexican Social Policy / Lucy Luccisano and Laura Macdonald -- 10 Social Policy in South Africa: Cushioning the Blow of the Recession? / Marlea Clarke -- 11 In the Shadow of Crisis: Change and Continuity in China's Post-Crisis Social Policy / Sarah Cook and Wing Lam -- Part 4: Global North -- 12 Global Crisis and Social Policy in Peripheral Europe: Comparing Ireland, Portugal, and Greece / Berkay Ayhan and Stephen McBride -- 13 Austerity Budgets and Public Sector Retrenchment: Crisis Era Policy Making in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia / Heather Whiteside -- 14 Austerity Lite: Social Determinants of Health under Canada's Neo-Liberal Capture / Ronald Labonté and Arne Ruckert -- 15 US Incremental Social Policy Expansionism in Response to Crisis / Gerard W. Boychuk Conclusion / Gerard W. Boychuk, Rianne Mahon, and Stephen McBride

After 2008