Introduction
Private issues or public concerns?
The relationship between social care policy and other social policies
Variations in the need for social care
Social care from youth to old age
Approaches to the provision of public long-term care
Growth and GDP: the dominance of a production perspective
Externalities and collective action problems
Comparative approaches to environmental policy
Environmental policy as social policy
12Conclusion: A divided world of social policy?
Understanding social policy in a global context
The decline of solidarities in the twenty-first century
The age of austerity and its consequences
Social policy in a post-global world
List of figures, tables and boxes
Figures
2.1 Regional and selected country percentage of global total wealth (US$ trillion), 2000 and 2018
5.1 Income security expenditure in the context of general social expenditure in OECD countries, 2016
5.2 Pensions as a percentage of income support expenditure
6.1 Countries with migrant remittances inflows of 10 per cent or more of GDP (US$ millions), 2018
7.1 Public and private expenditure on primary, secondary and post-secondary, non-tertiary education as a percentage of GDP in OECD countries, 2015
7.2.Education expenditure and social expenditure as a percentage of GDP, 2015 or latest available
7.3 Percentage of tertiary graduates, 2016
8.1 Percentage share of households by housing tenure, 2014 or latest available
8.2 Public spending on grants and financial support to home buyers as percentage of GDP, 2015
9.1 Health expenditure per capita, 2016 or nearest year
10.1 Expenditure on early childhood educational development and pre-primary education, 2015
10.2 Population aged 65+, 2017 (% of total population)
10.3 Long-term care expenditure (health and social components) by government and compulsory insurance schemes, as a share of GDP, 2015 or nearest year
