No 48: Social policy in the Middle East and North Africa must be about more than security
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 […]
Month: June 2019
No 47: Farewell to the middle class?
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 […]
No 46: Conservative and far right social policy in Austria
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 […]
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 […]
No 45: Contradictions from the left in Mexico
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 […]
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 […]