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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457479703321

Autore

Townsend Peter

Titolo

Building decent societies [[electronic resource] ] : Rethinking the role of social security in state building

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, : International Labour Office, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

ISBN

92-2-121996-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 p.)

Disciplina

362.58091724

Soggetti

Developing countries -- Social policy

Income maintenance programs -- Developing countries

Poverty -- Developing countries -- Prevention

Poverty -- Prevention -- International cooperation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I: The Right to Social Security and National Development; 2 Social Security and Human Rights; Part II: Issues for the Global Society of the Twenty-first Century; 3 Social Protection and Nation-Building: an Essay on Why and How Universalist Social Policy Contributes to Stable Nation-States; 4 Social Security, Social Impact and Economic Performance: a Farewell to Three Famous Myths; 5 Can Low-Income Countries Afford Social Security?

6 The Impact of Social Transfers on Growth, Development, Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries7 Investment in Social Security: a Possible UN Model for Child Benefit?; Part III: Social Protection in Europe and the OECD; 8 Three Models of Social Security in the History of the Industrialized Countries; 9 Social Protection, the European Union and its Member States; 10 Can the European Welfare Model be Exported?; 11 The Poverty Effects of Social Protection in Europe: EU Enlargement and its Lessons for Developing Countries; Part IV: Experiences from Low-Income Countries

12 Social Security in Developing Countries: a Brief Overview13



Introducing Basic Social Protection in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Existing Programmes; 14 Social Protection, Rural Livelihoods and Economic Growth: the Case of Cash Transfers in Malawi, Ethiopia and Bangladesh; 15 Welfare, Development and Growth: Lessons from South Africa; 16 From Targeting to Universality: Lessons from the Health System in Thailand; Part V: Conclusions; 17 Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This book makes the case for a comprehensive social security system to be developed in all countries, including the poorest ones, in order to eliminate desperate conditions of poverty, to reverse growing inequality and to sustain economic growth. This is a co-publication with Palgrave Macmillan