Ahmad Et Al

SOCIAL SECURITY DEV COUNT WIDER C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The term `social security' has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries and is best understood as poverty alleviation. This book attempts to define social security in the Third World and to examine what sort of programmes are most suitable for developing countries. The authors review current literature on the subject. Some chapters explore broad themes, others describe social security provisions in various regions in India, China, Latin America, and Southern Africa. Western systems are compared and broad assessments made of the traditional social security systems in Third World village societies. The editors aim to put the subject of social security firmly on the agenda of development economic research with a view to stimulate much further research in this area. The book is written in a way that will be accessible to a much wider audience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 904g
• ISBN-13: 9780198233008
• ISBN-10: 0198233000
• Artikelnr.: 66517949

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; List of contributors; PART I: General Issues: Jean Dréze & Amartya
Sen: Public action for Social Security: Foundations and strategy; Robin
Burgess & Nicholas Stern: Social Security in developing countries: What,
why, who and how?; A. B. Atkinson & John Hills: Social Security in
developed countries: Are there lessons for developing countries?;
Jean-Philippe Platteau: Traditional systems of Social Security and hunger
insurance: Past achievements and modern challenges; Bina Agarwal: Social
Security and the family: Coping with seasonality and calamity in rural
India; PART II: Case Studies: Ehtisham Ahmad & Athar Hussain: Social
Security in China: A historical perspective; S. R. Osmani: Social Security
in South Asia; Carmelo Mesa-Lago: Social Security in Latin America and the
Caribbean: A comparative assessment; Joachim von Braun: Social Security in
sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections on policy challenges; Richard Morgan:
Social Security in the SADCC States of Southern Africa: Social welfare
programmes and the reduction of household vulnerability