Introduction / Rianne Mahon, Gerard W. Boychuk, and Stephen McBride

Part 1: Context

1 Neo-Liberalism in Question? / Stephen McBride

2 Broadening the Frame: Inclusive Growth and the Social Investment Perspective / Jane Jenson

3 A New Era for Social Policy? Welfare States and the Financial Crisis / Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving

Part 2: International Organizations

4 Understanding Policy Change as Position-Taking: The IMF and Social Policies in Times of Crisis / Antje Vetterlein

5 The ILO and Social Protection Policy after the Global Financial Crisis: A Challenge to the World Bank / Bob Deacon

6 The ILO, Greece, and Social Dialogue in the Aftermath of the GFC / Nigel Haworth and Steve Hughes

7 It Takes Two to Tango: Conditional Cash Transfers, Social Policy, and the Globalizing Role of the World Bank/ Anthony Hall

Part 3: Emerging Areas

8 Integrating the Social into CEPAL’s Neo-Structuralist Discourse/ Rianne Mahon

9 The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Mexican Social Policy / Lucy Luccisano and Laura Macdonald

10 Social Policy in South Africa: Cushioning the Blow of the Recession? / Marlea Clarke

11 In the Shadow of Crisis: Change and Continuity in China’s Post-Crisis Social Policy / Sarah Cook and Wing Lam

Part 4:Global North

12 Global Crisis and Social Policy in Peripheral Europe: Comparing Ireland, Portugal, and Greece / Berkay Ayhan and Stephen McBride

13 Austerity Budgets and Public Sector Retrenchment: Crisis Era Policy Making in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia / Heather Whiteside

14 Austerity Lite: Social Determinants of Health under Canada’s Neo-Liberal Capture/ Ronald Labonté and Arne