Global Social Policy Digest

The GSP Digest has been produced under the editorship of Alexandra Kaasch with support from the University of Bremen Centre for Social Policy Research and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. It has been compiled by Bob Deacon (University of Sheffield, UK), Alexandra Kaasch (University of Bremen, Germany), Sunil Kumar (LSE) and Antoni Verger (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona). Branka Marijan (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) provided invaluable research assistance. This version of the Digest is available on http://www.gsp-observatory.org, http://www.icsw.org, http://www.crop.org and http://www.ilo.org. All the websites referenced were accessible in August 2012. This edition of the Digest covers the period May to mid-August 2012.