Parental Leave and Beyond

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Early Parenthood ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Leave Policy ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Different Parts

This volume brings together contributors from 18 countries to provide international perspectives on the politics of parental leave policies in different parts of the world. Initially looking in depth at the politics of care leave policies across Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia, the book moves on to consider a variety of key issues in depth, including gender equality, flexibility and challenges for fathers in using leave. In the final section of the book, contributors look beyond the early parenthood period to consider possible future directions for care leave policy in order to address the wider changes and challenges that our societies face.

scholarly journals Strings Attached

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (05) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Tim Sprinkle
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Growth Potential ◽  
American Business ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
Foreign Government ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Us Government ◽  
International Investors ◽  
Different Parts

This article discusses reasons for various American startup companies to shift abroad for funding and production, and their impact on the American business scenarios. Founders are accepting funding from overseas investors, setting up supply chains in different parts of the world, servicing customers internationally, and even selling their businesses to foreign government-backed funds. Although the idea of losing American inventions and technologies to international investors and buyers is not generally good for public relations, the current landscape of global startup development has winners on both sides, and overseas involvement in US companies does not necessarily mean a net loss domestically. The US government must find a way to move the US economy forward, preventing predatory pricing and mercantilist practices by exporters while at the same time reaping the international flow of ideas and funds that power innovation. The experts believe that ignoring the rest of the world would not only limit the growth potential of US startups, but over time would reduce America’s global leadership in innovation.

Introduction: much work still to do

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Peter Moss ◽  
Alison Koslowski ◽  
Ann-Zofie Duvander
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Early Parenthood ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Leave Policy ◽  
Policy Attention

Much effort is currently going into developing leave policies for early parenthood; the results, though, are variable and uneven, due in large part to the politics of leave policy, with many issues, as we have argued, left unresolved. Moreover, much policy-making energy is narrowly focused. Rather than recent developments in leave representing the final stages of what must be done, it is apparent that our societies are still only in the early stages of appreciating what can be done. With much of the current policy attention focused on leave for parents of young children, we have hardly begun to question what future directions policy should take if it is to respond to the wider changes and challenges that our societies face. In short, the scale of the transformation we need is large, yet only dimly apparent. It is these considerations – both detailed analysis and improvement of existing policies and thinking broadly about possible future directions for leave policy – that have motivated the writing of this book.

scholarly journals Paid parental leave policy: a response to Maureen Baker

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Callister ◽  
Judith Galtry
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Leave Policy ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Paid Parental Leave

In the August 2011 issue of Policy Quarterly, Maureen Baker sets out to outline ‘Key issues in parental leave policy’. One aim of the article was to examine ‘some of the continuing debates about paid parental leave’. However, we argue that the article fails to advance debates about paid parental leave in New Zealand, because: 1) it does not adequately engage with recent national and international literature; 2) it lacks new empirical evidence; 3) its theoretical basis is confused; and 4) no clear, new policy directions are promoted.  

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorun Rugkåsa ◽  
Andrew Molodynski ◽  
Tom Burns
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
First Time ◽  
Broad Overview

This book gives a broad overview of the historical development of ideas about coercion, its current practice, and theory. It also considers future directions for research and clinical practice. Crucially it gives, for the first time, a global picture of these issues from those researching or working in mental health care across all continents. Coercion has always been a central concern in mental health care, and never more than now. The move away from asylums (deinstitutionalization) and into the community has widened the debate to all those with mental health problems rather than the much smaller group detained in institutions. The issues facing us now are consequently different and much more varied and wide ranging. This volume will bring the reader up to date regarding concepts, theories, and key issues pertaining to community coercion in different regions of the world.

scholarly journals From Adaptation to Appropriation: Framing the World Through News Translation

Linguaculture ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto A. Valdeón
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
News Production ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Target Readership

Abstract Terminological issues are problematic in the analysis of translation processes in news production. In the 1980s, Stetting coined the term “transediting”, which has been widely used in the translation studies literature, but “translation” itself becomes contentious in communication studies, a discipline closely related to news translation research. Only a few communication scholars have specifically dealt with the linguistic and cultural transformations of source texts, but they tend to regard translation as word-for-word transfer, unusual news production. More productive for the study of news translation seems to be the application of the concept of framing, widely used in communication studies. Framing considers the linguistic and paralinguistic elements of news texts in the promotion of certain organizing ideas that the target audience can identify with. In news translation, this entails the adaptation of a text for the target readership, a process can lead to appropriation of source material. Two examples are mentioned to illustrate this point: the appropriation of the US Department of State cables by the Wikileak organisation, and the pro-Romanian slogans produced by the Gandul newspaper as a response to Britain’s anti-immigration campaigns. The final section relates news adaptation to adaptation of other text types, such as literary and historical works.

Chapter II. The World Economy

1987 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Simon Wren-Lewis ◽  
Fiona Eastwood
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Federal Budget ◽  
Term Forecast ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Growth Prospects ◽  
Alternative Routes

In the ‘overall outlook’ section we focus on the influence of the Group of Five (G5) ‘accord’ on exchange-rate prospects, and compare the expected impact of an appreciating currency on growth prospects in Japan and Germany. The short-term forecast is then discussed in more detail in sections covering the six major economies, commodity prices and trade. In the second half of the chapter we examine economic prospects in the world economy over the next five years, focusing particularly on the outlook for current balances. In our central medium-term forecast exchange rates move sufficiently to bring about a large, if not total, reduction in the present level of trade imbalance. Our forecast for a substantial fall in the US deficit is unusual, and we examine the key issues involved as well as looking at associated changes in the Federal budget deficit. Finally, we present two simulations which represent alternative routes to removing current account disequilibrium. The first involves substantial, and as yet unannounced, fiscal reflation in Japan and Germany, which is sufficient to broadly maintain current exchange-rate parities. By contrast, a second simulation illustrates a collapse in the dollar, and the consequences of exchange-rate overshooting.

scholarly journals The US ABM system and global strategic stability

2016 ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
V. Mizin
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Strategic Stability ◽  
Military Threat ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Suitable Arrangement ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Key Issues

The problems of antimissile defense constitutes one of the key issues of global arms control domain of today. No advancement toward the lowering of global military threat, reciprocal reduction of nuclear weapons’ arsenals and the solving of contemporary tasks in the vast realm of today’s strategic stability are feasible, if a suitable arrangement on it is not to be found. At the same time, this conundrum is the major irritant in the Russia-West interrelationship, first and foremost, in our dealings with the NATO military-political alliance led by the USA. Therefore, finding the mutually acceptable solutions to this end would have promoted the consolidation of mutual trust and created the prerequisites for moving toward a safer and more stable world. The paper suggests a set of specific urgent steps that would show the ways out of the current negotiating impasse related to the ABM problematic and created the basis for a potential agreement while not afflicting the national security of any state in the world.

scholarly journals Key issues in paid parental leave policy

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Baker
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Women Employees ◽  
Leave Policy ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Paid Parental Leave

In 2002 New Zealand employees gained access to paid parental leave, but other countries established these benefits much earlier and/or used a mix of policy parameters. This article, which is framed within a comparative and feminist political economy perspective, compares paid parental leave programmes in two countries with similar welfare regimes: New Zealand and Canada. The article argues that delivering these benefits through social insurance, as is done in Canada, could elevate benefit levels for some workers but fewer women employees would tend to qualify.

Dementia Care: International Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Dementia Care ◽  
World Health ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The World ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Different Parts

According to estimates of the World Health Organization, the number of people living with dementia will double almost every 20 years for the foreseeable future. While in 2010, there were 35.6 million people with dementia worldwide, this number is expected to increase to 65.7 million by 2030, and to 115.4 million by 2050. The primary aim of this book Dementia Care: International Perspectives is to present arrangements for the care of people with dementia and their families in different parts of the world and to serve as a stimulus to develop new ideas for the provision of such care. While preparing this book, we asked the world’s leading experts in the field of dementia five questions—having initially gathered information about these issues through an Internet search. The results of this enquiry are shown for 45 of the countries, and the summary is presented. We have attempted to include, as far as we can, within the constraints of publishing a volume which is manageable and digestible for the reader, the descriptions of care for people with dementia in 47 countries, hoping that these descriptions will reflect the wide spread of countries, big and small, geographically diverse from all continents, and encompassing the major language and culture groups.

Parental Leave and beyond: recent international developments, current issues and future directions

2019 ◽  
pp. 353-370
Author(s):  
Ann-Zofie Koslowski ◽  
Peter Duvander
Keyword(s):  
Parental Leave ◽  
Household Type ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Leave Policy ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter investigates the recent developments and current issues around parental leave such as multiple rationales for leave, policy designs, the politics of flexibility and choice, eligibility (employment related entitlement or social right?), adapting policies to increasing diversity in employment and household type. In addition, it covers topics such as the relationship between parental leave, workplace and other policy areas, future directions for politics and policy for parental leave.

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