Social Welfare Programmes and Fertility Decline: A Social Reform Approach

This book has evaluated social welfare programmes considerably since 1980s. During this time, welfare policy and programmes strategy has matured into an important field in the social development, and the field has developed it own set of analytical approaches. Although this book continues to emphasize a general perspective to implementation, it has broadened in scope to include frameworks and analytical approaches that have been developed specifically for strategic planning and implementation of each programmes from time to time. The primary consumer focus for this book continues to be the social science researchers. Their limited works experience requires a resource that provides a straightforward presentation of strategy and its components, with many explanations and examples. This book explains concepts in a simple logical manner where strategic implementations into their components parts and defined. This enables researchers to apply the resulting tools and frameworks quickly and effectively in their research. Another important feature of this book is its focus on the Tamil Nadu’s success story of social development and infrastructures facilities. Finally, this book includes a variety of readings selected from some of the top ranked, pragmatically oriented, scientific journals. The readings supplement the book, particularly when topics are deemed very important to the strategic process and where new strategic ideas have become relevant.