Building decent societies: rethinking the role of social security in development

This book builds the case for a comprehensive social security system to be developed in all countries b to eliminate desperate conditions of poverty, reverse growing inequality and sustain economic growth. It gives the history of therich countries in meeting poverty and shows how the strategies in the poor countries can be greatly improved. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Foreword; A.Diop - Introduction; P.Townsend - PART I: THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Social Securityand Human Rights; P.Townsend - PART II: ISSUES FOR THE GLOBAL SOCIETY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY - Social Protection and Nation Building: An essay on why and how universalist social policy contributes to stable nation-states; - C.deNeubourg - Social Security, Social Impact and Economic Performance: A Farewell to Three Famous Myths; M.Cichon ; W.Scholz - Can Low-income Countries AffordSocial Security?; C.Behrendt ; K.Hagemejer - The Impact of Social Transfers on Growth, Development, Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries; M.Samson - Child Poverty and Child Rights a Possible UN Model for Child Benefit?; P.Townsend - PART III: SOCIAL PROTECTION IN EUROPE AND THE OECD - Three Models ofSocial Security in the History of the Industrialised Countries; P.Townsend - Social Protection, the European Union and its Member States; R.Wagener - Can the European Welfare Model be Exported?; P.Lindert - The Poverty Effects of Social Protection in Europe EU Enlargement and its Lessons for Developing Countries; B.Cantillon - PART IV: EXPERIENCES FROM LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES - Social Security in Developing Countries: A Brief Overview; P.Townsend - Introducing BasicSocial Protection in Low Income Countries: Lessons >From Existing Programmes;A.Barrientos - Social Protection, Rural Livelihoods and Economic Growth: The Case of Cash Transfers; R.Slater, J.Farrington, R.Holmes ; P.Harvey - Welfare,Development and Growth Lessons from South Africa; F.Lund - From Targeting to Universality Lessons from the Health System in Thailand; V.Tangcharoensathien,P.Prakongsai, S.Limwattananon, W.Patcharanarumol ; P.Jongudomsuk - PART V: CONCLUSIONS - Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development; C.Behrendt,M.Cichon, K.Hagemejer, S.Kidd, R.Krech ; P.Townsend - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23525-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 408
• Fecha Publicación: 03/08/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés