Globalism and Social Policy Programme

Stakes is involved in GASPP (Globalism and Social Policy Programme) Network. It was initiated in 1997 as a Finnish-British joint project. The project studies the impacts of globalization upon social policy. Currently GASSP is a network of four Collaborating Centres:

• STAKES - The National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Helsinki, Finland
• European Social and Cultural Studies Centre of the University of Sheffield, England
• Institute on Globalisation and the Human Condition, McMaster University, Canada
• The Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

GASPP research in STAKES focuses currently on global health policy and in analysing the impacts of globalisation on health policy. For more information see GASPP website.

Policy brief by GASPP team: Bob Deacon, Minna Ilva, Meri Koivusalo, Eeva Ollila and Paul Stubbs (2005): Copenhagen Social Summit ten years on: The need for effective social policies nationally, regionally and globally (PDF 118kb)

GASPP Occasional paper no 8/2001, Bob Deacon: The Social Dimension of Regionalism: A Constructive Alternative to Neo-Liberal Globalisation? PDF 262kb)