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"Provides analysis of how the field of international aid is changing with new approaches necessary because of new actors providing assistance, including middle-income countries, private philanthropists, and the private sector, and new challenges, including climate change and the large number of fragile states"--Provided by publisher

AbstractAlthough social work research has paid substantial attention to employment patterns among low-income single mothers after welfare reform, little is known about their work-hour trajectories over time. This study uses group-based trajectory modeling to analyze the work-hour trajectories among low-income single mothers in the United States (N = 870). Only approximately two-fifths (41.9 percent) of participants in the sample had stable employment. About 18 percent did not work throughout the study period. Yet several groups experienced changes in working patterns over time: increasing hours (20.7 percent), decreasing then increasing hours (11.3 percent), and decreasing hours (8.4 percent). This study uses a generalized linear mixed model to determine the factors associated with change in work hours over time. Significant factors include marital status, high school completion, race, citizenship, homeownership, child care arrangement, income support program participation, work disability, age of youngest child, age of the mother, state unemployment rate, and state minimum wage. These findings have important policy implications for targeting supports to diverse needs of low-income single-mother families to promote employment stability and economic improvement.

Part I. - Measuring Post-Conflict Development Success: Theory and Practice: Introduction, Brendan M. Howe. - Security, post-conflict development, and good governance in East Asia, Brendan M. Howe. - The responsibility to protect and Northeast Asia: the case of North Korea, Boris Kondoch. - Part II . - East Asian 'Success' Stories and Caveats: Aid to build governance in a fragile state: foreign assistance to a post-conflict South Korea, Jae-Jung Suh and Jinkyung Kim. - Human security and post-conflict development in Taiwan, Christian Schaeffer. - Post-conflict developments in the Vietnamese context - reform, conflict resolution and regional integration, Ramses Amer. - Part III . - East Asian Obstacle Case Studies and Opportunities: Human security in post-Cold War Cambodia, Sorpong Peou. - Oligarchic rule, ethnocratic tendencies and armed conflict in the Philippines, Nathan Gilbert Quimpo. - From authoritarian to democratic models of post-conflict development: the Indonesian experience, Edward Aspinall. - Part IV . - Past Asian Initiatives in the Field of Human Security: Working for human security: JICA's experience, Keiichi Tsunekawa and Ryutaro Murotani. - Korea's development assistance in fragile states: what is at stake?, Woojin Jung. - Human security in building the ASEAN community, Carolina G. Hernandez