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Social Policy Journal of New Zealand - Issue 20 June 2003

Table of Contents

Keynote Addresses

To the Social Policy Research and Evaluation Conference

Dame Anne Salmond

From Research to Social Policy and Back Again: Translating Scholarship into Practice through the Starry Eyes of a Sometimes Scarred Veteran

David T. Ellwood

Evidence-Based Policy and Practice: Cross-Sector Lessons from the United Kingdom

Sandra Nutley, Huw Davies and Isabel Walter

In Search of Meaning, Nuance and Metaphor In Social Policy

Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Taisi Efi

Evidence-Based Policy Making: Some Observations of Recent Canadian Experience

David Zussman

Papers

New Zealand Living Standards: Their Measurement and Variation, with an Application To Policy

John Jensen, Vasantha Krishnan, Matt Spittal, and Sathi Sathiyandra

Family Resilience and Good Child Outcomes: An Overview of the Research Literature

Ross Mackay

Strengthening Communities through Local Partnerships: Building a Collaborative Research Project

Wendy Larner and Tony Mayow

Work Poor or Working Poor? A Comparative Perspective On New Zealand’s Jobless Households

Susan G. Singley and Paul Callister

Human Capital Issues in an Ageing Workforce

Judith A. Davey

The Level of Financial Assistance to Families with Dependent Children: A Comparative Analysis

Robert Stephens

Assessing The Progress On Poverty Reduction

Charles Waldegrave, Robert Stephens, Peter King

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