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Building decent societies : rethinking the role of social security in development / edited by Peter Townsend.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan : International Labour Organization, 2009Description: xxii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230235255
  • 9780230235250
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.58091724 22
LOC classification:
  • HV525 .B85 2009
Contents:
1. Introduction / Peter Townsend -- Part I. The Right to Social Security and National Development -- 2. Social Security and Human Rights / Peter Townsend -- 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 / Chris de Neubourg -- 4. Social Security, Social Impact and Economic Performance: a Farewell to Three Famous Myths / Michael Cichon, Wolfgang Scholz -- 5. Can Low-Income Countries Afford Social Security? / Christina Behrendt, Krzysztof Hagemejer -- 6. The Impact of Social Transfers on Growth, Development, Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries / Michael Samson -- 7. Investment in Social Security: a Possible UN Model for Child Benefit? / Peter Townsend -- Part III. Social Protection in Europe and the OECD -- 8. Three Models of Social Security in the History of the Industrialized Countries / Peter Townsend -- 9. Social Protection, the European Union and its Member States / Raymond Wagener -- 10. Can the European Welfare Model be Exported? / Peter H. Lindert -- 11. The Poverty Effects of Social Protection in Europe: EU Enlargement and its Lessons for Developing Countries / Bea Cantillon -- Part IV. Experiences from Low-Income Countries -- 12. Social Security in Developing Countries: a Brief Overview / Peter Townsend -- 13. Introducing Basic Social Protection in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Existing Programmes / Armando Barrientos -- 14. Social Protection, Rural Livelihoods and Economic Growth: the Case of Cash Transfers in Malawi, Ethiopia and Bangladesh / Rachel Slater, John Farrington, Rebecca Holmes, Paul Harvey -- 15. Welfare, Development and Growth: Lessons from South Africa / Francie Lund -- 16. From Targeting to Universality: Lessons from the Health System in Thailand / Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Phusit Prakongsai, Supon Limwattananon, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Pongpisut Jongudomsuk -- Part V. Conclusions -- 17. Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development / Christina Behrendt, Michael Cichon, Krzysztof Hagemejer, Stephen Kidd, Rudiger Krech, Peter Townsend.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Peter Townsend -- Part I. The Right to Social Security and National Development -- 2. Social Security and Human Rights / Peter Townsend -- 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 / Chris de Neubourg -- 4. Social Security, Social Impact and Economic Performance: a Farewell to Three Famous Myths / Michael Cichon, Wolfgang Scholz -- 5. Can Low-Income Countries Afford Social Security? / Christina Behrendt, Krzysztof Hagemejer -- 6. The Impact of Social Transfers on Growth, Development, Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries / Michael Samson -- 7. Investment in Social Security: a Possible UN Model for Child Benefit? / Peter Townsend -- Part III. Social Protection in Europe and the OECD -- 8. Three Models of Social Security in the History of the Industrialized Countries / Peter Townsend -- 9. Social Protection, the European Union and its Member States / Raymond Wagener -- 10. Can the European Welfare Model be Exported? / Peter H. Lindert -- 11. The Poverty Effects of Social Protection in Europe: EU Enlargement and its Lessons for Developing Countries / Bea Cantillon -- Part IV. Experiences from Low-Income Countries -- 12. Social Security in Developing Countries: a Brief Overview / Peter Townsend -- 13. Introducing Basic Social Protection in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Existing Programmes / Armando Barrientos -- 14. Social Protection, Rural Livelihoods and Economic Growth: the Case of Cash Transfers in Malawi, Ethiopia and Bangladesh / Rachel Slater, John Farrington, Rebecca Holmes, Paul Harvey -- 15. Welfare, Development and Growth: Lessons from South Africa / Francie Lund -- 16. From Targeting to Universality: Lessons from the Health System in Thailand / Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Phusit Prakongsai, Supon Limwattananon, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Pongpisut Jongudomsuk -- Part V. Conclusions -- 17. Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development / Christina Behrendt, Michael Cichon, Krzysztof Hagemejer, Stephen Kidd, Rudiger Krech, Peter Townsend.

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