Transforming Society: Strategies for Social Development from Singapore, Asia and Around the World

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Prelude
	Social policies: some issues that merit greater attention
Introduction
	1 Transforming society: social leadership, social development and social change
Part I Challenges of social development
	2 Sustaining social development in the twenty-first century
	3 Fifty years of social innovation: reflections on social policy in Singapore
	4 Government’s approach towards social policies in a digital age
	5 Social development in Asia and the Pacific: major trends and issues
	6 Social development and social research in Africa
Part II Workforce and migration
	7 Measuring transformative workforce activation using the Comprehensive Employment Hope Scale
	8 Transforming Thai–Myanmar borderland: de facto statelessness, indigenous minorities and internally displaced persons
	9 Social work and social welfare preparations for ASEAN economic community integration
Part III Welfare, women and social care
	10 Towards a synergy of tripartite empowerment for older persons
	11 Transforming long-term care of the elderly in three Chinese societies
	12 Flood disasters in Malaysia: psychosocial care and social work intervention
	13 Women in household decision-making and their contribution to agriculture and rural development in Nigeria
Part IV Community development and capacity building
	14 Social development in agrarian and non-agrarian communities in the Philippines
	15 Host organisation perspectives of volunteer traits: implications for selection and training
	16 Asset Based Community Development (ABCD): an alternative path for community development
	17 Social work education for social transformation
Index