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Maintaining Momentum
This unique collection of essays seeks to identify the most pressing needs for policy interventions aimed at extending social mobility and life chances. It provides a valuable synthesis of evidence on the effectiveness of recent policy interventions.
Choosing to Learn
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Britain's War on Poverty
In 1999, one in four British children lived in poverty—the third highest child poverty rate among industrialized countries. Five years later, the child poverty rate in Britain had fallen by more than half in absolute terms. How did the British government accomplish this and what can the United States learn from the British experience? Jane Waldfogel offers a sharp analysis of the New Labour government's anti-poverty agenda, its dramatic early success and eventual stalled progress. Comparing Britain's anti-poverty initiative to U.S. welfare reform, the book shows how the policies of both countries have affected child poverty, living standards, and well-being in low-income families and sugge...
The Humanitarians
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) coordinates the world's largest private relief system for conflict situations. Its staff operates throughout the world, and in recent years the ICRC has mounted large operations in the Balkans and Somalia. Yet despite its very important role its internal workings are mysterious and often secretive. This book examines the ICRC from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day, and provides a comprehensive overview of a unique private organisation, whose governing body remains all-Swiss, but which is recognized in international law as if it were an inter-governmental organization. David Forsythe focuses on the policy making and field work of the ICRC, while not ignoring international humanitarian law. He explores how it exercises its independence, impartiality, and neutrality to try to protect prisoners in Iraq, displaced and starving civilians in Somalia, and families separated by conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. David Forsythe received the Distinguished Scholar Award for 2007 from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.
Going Places
Drawing from the latest international research and following the agenda set at the 2005 Social Mobility and Life Chances Forum, leading authors from Europe and North America address issues including how place and ethnicity affect life chances.
Learning for Life
Argues that adult learners themselves should be in the driving seat, with flexible entitlements to courses and financial support that is available to every adult learner but targeted at those who need it most. Asserts that colleges should have more autonomy and that local authorities should have a bigger role in coordinating provision.
Renewal
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Policy, Planning, and People
Policy, Planning, and People presents original essays by leading authorities in the field of urban policy and planning. The volume includes theoretical and practice-based essays that integrate social equity considerations into state-of-the-art discussions of findings in a variety of planning issues.
