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Social Policy Journal of New Zealand - Issue 20 June 2003

Table of Contents

Foreword

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