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Global Social Policy in the Context of Global Inequality

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Welfare State Transformations and Inequality in OECD Countries

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This chapter concerns the attention given to matters of inequality by global social policy actors and discusses how their ideas and mechanisms may—potentially—affect inequalities. This section introduces the concept of global social policy and demonstrates how inequality is addressed in different dimensions of that concept.

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    More data can be found at WomanStats Database, the most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world.

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    http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/development-aid-stable-in-2014-but-flows-to-poorest-countries-still-falling.htm

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Kaasch, A. (2016). Global Social Policy in the Context of Global Inequality. In: Wulfgramm, M., Bieber, T., Leibfried, S. (eds) Welfare State Transformations and Inequality in OECD Countries. Transformations of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51184-3_11

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