The Future of the Social Investment State: Politics, Policies and Outcomes

Social investment is part of a strategy to modernize the European welfare states by focusing on human resource development throughout the life-course, while ensuring financial sustainability. The last decades have seen cost containment in areas such as pensions and health care, but also expansion in areas such as early childhood education, higher education and active labor market policies. This development is linked to a Social Investment (SI)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367587157
• ISBN13: 9780367587154
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 164 Pages