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After an historical Excursus on Malta's history, society, culture and institutions with their effects on female condition and on family structure and concept, the paper gives a survey of most recent Malta's economic and demographic trends with special attention to families and women, based on statistical data of the National Institute of Statistics...
Citations
The study of welfare states and social policy has enjoyed growing popularity in the last four decades. Emerging from primarily
descriptive studies of state-provided welfare, social security, and health institutions and from relatively crude quantitative
and qualitative comparative studies, this field has been characterized by a growing level of theorization, richer case study
analyses, inclusion of additional sources of welfare provision (nonprofit, market-based, informal, family), and increasingly
complex, accurate and up-to-date cross-national comparative analyses (Castles, 2004; Clasen & Siegel, 2007; Ferrera, 2008;
Huber & Stephens, 2001; Mabbet & Bolderson, 1999).