This chapter examines the period from 1996 to 2018. The development of social policy in Latvia has been influenced by many kinds of pressures, both internal and external, including policy learning and policy transfer. The social policy model implemented in Latvia represents a mixture of conservative and liberal features with evident dominance of the liberal approach. At the same time, the family
... [Show full abstract] and children policy with the consistently increasing state support presents clear examples of the social investment approach.