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Paying for Health, Education and Housing
Glennerster, Howard; Hills, John (Director Of Case, Professor Of Social Policy, London School Of Economics); Travers, Tony
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Description for Paying for Health, Education and Housing
England is unusual in relying so heavily on central government to finance its social services. Citizens expect to be able to access services of similar standards wherever they live. This raises difficult theoretical and practical issues which are analyzed in this text. Num Pages: 252 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; JKSB; JNL; JPQB; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
England is unusual in relying so heavily on central government to finance its social services. Citizens expect to be able to access services of similar standards wherever they live. This raises difficult theoretical and practical issues. How are the needs of different areas to be measured? How are the different costs of providing services in very different parts of the country to be assessed? This book reviews the economic theory that underpins thinking about the problem. It then traces the way governments have distributed resources from the end of the last century until today. It critically analyses current methods for ... Read more
England is unusual in relying so heavily on central government to finance its social services. Citizens expect to be able to access services of similar standards wherever they live. This raises difficult theoretical and practical issues. How are the needs of different areas to be measured? How are the different costs of providing services in very different parts of the country to be assessed? This book reviews the economic theory that underpins thinking about the problem. It then traces the way governments have distributed resources from the end of the last century until today. It critically analyses current methods for ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199240784
SKU
V9780199240784
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Reviews for Paying for Health, Education and Housing
This book is well written and is accessible to social policy undergraduates ... will be a useful addition to my undergraduate welfare finance reading list. It goes into more depth than Howard Glennerster's Paying for Welfare and covers a range of different issues.
Social Policy
Social Policy