Moving beyond the 'post-Washington consensus', this book shifts the focus of development policy debates away from expenditures and austerity and towards revenues and resources. The book explores the potential and the developmental impact of different categories of resources for financing social policy in a development context. INDICE: Foreword; T.Mkandawire - Preface and Acknowledgements; K.Hujo ; S.McClanahan - List of Abbreviations and Acronyms - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction and Overview; K.Hujo ; S.McClanahan - PART I: GLOBAL DIMENSION: PARADIGMS AND RESOURCES - Social Exclusion Policies and Labour Markets in LatinAmerica; R.Lo Vuolo - Financing for Development: International Redistribution; I.Ortiz - PART II: TAXATION AND AID - How Can Financing of Social Services be Pro-Poor?; E.Delamonica ; S.Mehrotra - Financing Developmental Social Policies in Low-Income Countries: Conditions and Constraints; A.Sindzingre - Aid andthe Financing of Public Social Sector Spending; O.Morrissey - PART III: MINERAL RENTS - Natural Resource Wealth, Development and Social Policy: Evidence and Issues; A.Rosser - Mineral Rents and Social Policy: The Case of the Norwegian Government Oil Fund; E.Holmøy - PART IV: SOCIAL INSURANCE AND PENSION FUNDS - Social Insurance (Pensions and Health), Labour Markets and Coverage in LatinAmerica; C.Mesa-Lago - Pensions and Pension Funds in the Making of a Nation-State and a National Economy: The Case of Finland; O.Kangas - Provident and Pension Funds and Economic Development in Selected Asian Countries; M.G.Asher - PART V: REMITTANCES - Remittances and Social Development; H.de Haas - Remittances and Social Development: The Latin American Experience; M.Orozco - Conclusions; K.Hujo ; S.McClanahan
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57664-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 09/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés