Towards the close of the 20th century, the idea of social investment gained purchase as a way to legitimise social policy as a productive contribution. For those in the North, social investment ...provided a new rationale to counter neoliberal attacks on the welfare state, while in the South, the idea caught on in the form of conditional cash transfers. The World Bank and Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) played key roles in the development and diffusion of the social investment agenda beginning in the mid-1990s. While hewing to a common core, their interpretations of social investment differed in important respects. The OECD sought to grapple with the emergence of more flexible, post-industrial labour markets, marked by growing precarity, dualisation and feminisation and focused on work–family balance as a solution while the Bank, focused on the South, emphasised social investment in very poor children to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty. In response to new pro-equality movements and intellectual research documenting the growth in inequality, however, a decade later, both organisations moved to incorporate a broader orientation, focused on the concept of ‘inclusive growth’. This article explores these developments.
Transnational care chains can be seen as a wicked problem, i.e. one that requires coordination across a range of jurisdictions. Yet international organizations, like other bureaucracies, factor ...problems. While this is designed to make issues more manageable, it can also inhibit the organization’s ability to grasp, and therefore to deal adequately with, wicked problems. This article examines the way policy research conducted in different parts of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank manages to capture pieces of the chain but is unable to see the connections between them.
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) created an opening to put the care economy on the global agenda, but the idea found particularly fertile ground in Latin America and the Caribbean well ...before COVID. This article examines the way the idea and practice of a care economy has been developed by feminists in the region. It looks at the role played by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the triennial Regional Conferences on Women in putting it on the regional agenda. Turning to the Uruguayan example, it looks at how feminists were able successfully to push for a national care system, using the idea of the care economy as a coalition magnet. When facing blockages at the national scale elsewhere, however, Latin American feminists have adopted a multi-scalar strategy, finding openings especially at the local scale, as the examples of Bogotá and Mexico City suggest.
Whether childcare is seen as part of society's educational policy, welfare policy, or employment policy affects not only its form and content but also its public image. The contributors in this ...volume use current polices for the care of infants and preschool children to analyze debates and track the emergence of new state welfare practices across a variety of social and political configurations-and offer some conclusions about which methods work the best.
Bringing together leading theorists and scholars in contemporary spatial thinking and political economy, this volume presents an unprecedented collection of essays on scale, as well as case studies ...on the restructuring of our global society.
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After Neo-Liberalism? Mahon, Rianne
Global social policy,
08/2010, Letnik:
10, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Although the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank are often (rightly) associated with the diffusion of ideas and practices underpinning neo-liberal ...globalization, a closer examination of their policy discourses over the last decade suggests that they have clearly gone beyond the brute neo-liberal prescription of welfare cuts and structural adjustment. This shift is particularly evident in their advocacy of public investment in childcare/child development programs, as ‘investing in children’ has come to be seen as a critical component of the paradigm. Different versions of this discourse, however, reflect a greater or lesser break from neo-liberal canons. This article explores such differences as they appear in the way the OECD and the World Bank have framed the need for early childhood education and care/development (ECEC).
Après le Néo-libéralisme? L’OECD, la Banque Mondiale et l’enfant Sauf que l’organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OECD) et la banque mondiale sont souvent lié à la diffusion des idées et des pratiques de la mondialisation néo-libéral, un examen plus étroit de ses discours de politique pendant la dernière décennie, indique qu’ils ont vraiment dépassé la politique brute de néo-libéral pour les réductions des prestations d’aide sociale et de l’ajustement structurel. Ce bouleversement est particulièrement marqué dans ses recommandations des investissements public pour les programmes de garderie d’enfants et pour les programmes pour le développement de l’enfant. “Investir dans les enfants” est venu pour étre vu comme une part essentielle du paradigme. Les différentes versions du discours, cependant, indique d’une rupture générale des principes fondamentaux de néo-libéral. Cet article examine la variation dans les principes structuraux du OECD et la banque mondiale, comme discours sur les bénéfices sociaux de l’éducation et de l’accueil des jeunes enfants (anglais: ECEC).
¿Después del Neoliberalismo? La OCDE, el Banco Mundial y el Niño Aunque la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (la OCDE) y el Banco Mundial son asociados muchas veces (y con razón) con la difusión de ideas y prácticas que sostienen la globalización neoliberal, un examen riguroso de sus discursos de política durante la última década indica que se han distanciado de la fórmula bruta neoliberal de recortes de asistencia social y modificación estructural. Este cam-bio se ve especialmente en su defensa de la inversión pública en los programas de desarrollo infantil, y el concepto de “invertir en los niños” forma un componente muy importante del paradigma. Sin embargo, distintas versiones de este discurso reflejan una mayor o menor ruptura con los cánones neoliberales. El presente documento examina estas diferencias como aparecen en la manera en que la OCDE y el Banco Mundial han formulado la necesidad de la educación y el cuidado/desarrollo de la primera infancia (ECEC).
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After Neo-Liberalism Mahon, Rianne
Global social policy,
08/2010, Letnik:
10, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Although the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank are often (rightly) associated with the diffusion of ideas and practices underpinning neo-liberal ...globalization, a closer examination of their policy discourses over the last decade suggests that they have clearly gone beyond the brute neo-liberal prescription of welfare cuts and structural adjustment. This shift is particularly evident in their advocacy of public investment in childcare/child development programs, as 'investing in children' has come to be seen as a critical component of the paradigm. Different versions of this discourse, however, reflect a greater or lesser break from neo-liberal canons. This article explores such differences as they appear in the way the OECD and the World Bank have framed the need for early childhood education and care/development (ECEC). Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.
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