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Month: June 2019

A social policy focus on security in the Middle East and North Africa neglects all other forms of welfare and social security.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 48: Social policy in the Middle East and North Africa must be about more than security

June 28, 2019 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Rana Jawad The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has some of the worst social and economic indicators of human development in the world, which exacerbate drivers of conflict in this region. They […]

Though the size of the global middle class is growing, their political power is shrinking in the face of austerity.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 47: Farewell to the middle class?

June 26, 2019 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Zoë Irving On Tuesday 22nd May 2019, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights released the final report on his country visit to the UK. His conclusion that the evaporation […]

Do far-right Austrian politics foretell the future of European populism?
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No 46: Conservative and far right social policy in Austria

June 24, 2019 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Mark Foord In 1988, Thomas Bernard, writer and critic of the silence surrounding Austria’s Nazi past, premiered his final work ‘Heldenplatz’. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the ‘Anschluss’ (the annexation of Austria into Nazi […]

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Taxation and Social Policy Group Event

June 22, 2019 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Taxation and Social Policy Group Event

The Taxation and Social Policy Group held the first event of their 2019 programme at Birmingham University on 12 February. The group was launched in 2018 with support from the SPA and aims to foster […]

The government of López Obrador in Mexico is letting down the poor with its austerity and poorly crafted social policy.
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No 45: Contradictions from the left in Mexico

June 13, 2019 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Luis Huesca Reynoso and Ricardo Velázquez Leyer In 2018, for the first time in Mexico’s history, a left-wing government was in a fair and competitive election, just when governments in other Latin American countries began to veer […]

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The Missing Dimension: Where is ‘race’ in Social Policy teaching and learning?

June 10, 2019 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on The Missing Dimension: Where is ‘race’ in Social Policy teaching and learning?

The Social Policy Association is proud to announce the release of our report examining ‘race’ in Social Policy teaching and learning.  Last year, following evidence from various sources, the SPA executive recognised that the concept […]

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