دانلود کتاب سیاست جهانی سرمایه گذاری اجتماعی، جلد دوم – پویایی سیاسی اصلاحات

Around the globe, welfare states are undergoing transformation. This is happening against the background of largely parallel global trends of changing capitalism, technological innovation and an accompanying shift towards skillfocused knowledge economies, adjusting labor markets, intensifying globalization, and demographic changes leading to both fiscal pressures as well as “new social risks” such as single parenthood, youth unemployment, and working poverty. As a reaction to these global trends, existing welfare states are adapting. In many countries around the world, policy- makers’ main response to these challenges has been to modernize welfare states by focusing on future- oriented policies that aim at creating, mobilizing, and preserving human capabilities and skills. These policies are what we call social investment. Social investment policies, such as— typically— education over the life course, early childhood education and care, employment- oriented family policies, and active labor market policies, aim to simultaneously fulfill both economic and social goals.