Insecurity and welfare regimes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America : social policy in development contexts / Ian Gough and Geof Wood with Armando Barrientos [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gough, Ian, author.

Wood, Geoffrey D., 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Developing countries.

Public welfare.

Developing countries--Social policy.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 363 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Insecurity & Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa & Latin America

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as landlords, moneylenders and patrons. This book seeks to develop a conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regime in a range of countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and makes an important contribution to the literature by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America.

Contents:

Welfare regimes in development contexts: a global and regional analysis / Ian Gough

Informal security regimes: the strength of relationships / Geof Wood

Conceptualising in/security regimes

Philippa Bevan

Latin America: towards a liberal-informal welfare regime / Armando Barrientos

East Asia: the limits of productivist regimes / Ian Gough

The dynamics of Africa's in/security regimes / Philippa Bevan

Rethinking the welfare approach in the context of Bangladesh / Peter Davis

Multi-tiered international welfare systems / Graham Room

Rethinking social policy development in contexts / Geof Wood and Ian Gough.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-23922-8

1-316-17074-8

0-521-08799-6

1-316-17627-4

1-316-17396-8

1-316-17248-1

1-316-17813-7

0-511-72023-8