UID:
almafu_9958066454502883
Format:
1 online resource (266 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-21719-8
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9786613217196
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1-84376-970-0
Series Statement:
Globalization and welfare
Content:
The OECD includes the richest nations in the world. It issues recommendations on economic and social policies. Is its counsel on welfare state policies coherent? And is it followed by member states in Western Europe? These are the guiding questions of this book, which is a first to deal with such issues.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminaries; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: a comparative study of the OECD and European states; 2. Multilateral surveillance and the OECD; 3. The OECD as a scientific authority?; 4. Finland; 5. Norway: an amenable member of the OECD; 7. Belgium: increasing critique by the OECD; 8. France: moving reluctantly in the OECD's direction; 9. The Netherlands: how OECD ideas are slowly creeping in; 10. Too many rivals? The OECD's influence on German welfare policies; 11. Little contention: Switzerland and the OECD; 12. OECD views on Greek welfare
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13. Italy's adaptation under external pressures14. The OECD and the reformulation of Spanish social policy; 15. Mutual admiration? OECD advice to the UK; 16. Ireland: disinterested commentary, but how effective?; 17. OECD and national welfare state development; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84376-321-4
Language:
English
