Welfare goes global : making progress and catching up / Richard Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Richard, 1933- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progress.

Economic development.

Welfare economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 208 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

In this innovative text, Richard Rose draws on a systematic analysis of the Global Welfare Database to explore the globalization of welfare over the last three decades, and to examine its impact on the health, education, and employment of billions of people across the world.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction: Welfare Important Everywhere

I WELFARE ACROSS TIME AND SPACE

1 Making Progress Globally

1.1 The welfare of individuals

1.2 Making progress nationally

1.3 Globalization is about catching up

1.4 The Global Welfare Database

2 The Welfare Mix

2.1 Modelling the welfare mix

2.2 Evolution of the welfare mix

2.3 Politics shapes the welfare mix

2.4 Aspirations global but resources national

3 Welfare about More than Money

3.1 Money as an input to the welfare mix

3.2 Soft spots in hard numbers

3.3 Unofficial economies add to the welfare mix

3.4 What social indicators add

4 The Development of Welfare

4.1 Multiple resources for development

4.2 A Global Index of Development

4.3 Accounting for global differences in welfare

II BASIC FORMS OF WELFARE

5 Health: Living Longer and Avoiding Death

5.1 Life expectancy increasing

5.2 Infant mortality decreasing

5.3 Lifestyles and avoidable deaths

5.4 The globalization of health

6 Education: Quantity and Quality

6.1 Literacy goes global

6.2 More education

6.3 More learning

6.4 The globalization of education

7 Work for Women

7.1 Employment and gender

7.2 Accounting for gender inequality

7.3 Rethinking what work is

7.4 Uneven globalization of gender equality

III THE GLOBALIZATION OF COUNTRIES AND PEOPLE

8 Countries Going Global

8.1 Many countries making progress

8.2 Some countries catching up

8.3 Accounting for national differences

8.4 Outlier countries

9 People Going Global

9.1 World population skewed

9.2 Welfare of the world's population

9.3 How population growth impacts global welfare

9.4 Where most people without welfare live

10 Unfinished Business.

10.1 Catching up sooner or later

10.2 Most but not all people at global standards by 2050

10.3 Redefining welfare goals

10.4 Global challenges to global welfare

Appendix: The Global Welfare Database

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 11, 2023).

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Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-890849-0

0-19-890847-4

0-19-890848-2

OCLC:

1413441333