Building Decent Societies : Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development - Peter Townsend

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Building Decent Societies

Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development

By: Peter Townsend (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 September 2009 | Edition Number 1

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This book builds the case for a comprehensive social security system to be developed in all countries - to eliminate desperate conditions of poverty, reverse growing inequality and sustain economic growth. It gives the history of the rich countries in meeting poverty and shows how the strategies in the poor countries can be greatly improved.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Poverty & Unemployment Economics Development Economics & Emerging Economies Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Development Studies Politics & Government Central Government Central Government Policies

International Relations Political Economy Social Services & Welfare Social Welfare & Social Services Welfare & Benefit Systems Labour Economics

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. x
List of Boxes	p. xii
Notes on Contributors	p. xiii
Foreword by Assane Diop	p. xix
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
The Right to Social Security and National Development	p. 27
Social Security and Human Rights	p. 29
Issues for the Global Society of the Twenty-first Century	p. 61
Social Protection and Nation-Building: an Essay on Why and How Universalist Social Policy Contributes to Stable Nation-States	p. 63
Social Security, Social Impact and Economic Performance: a Farewell to Three Famous Myths	p. 80
Can Low-Income Countries Afford Social Security?	p. 99
The Impact of Social Transfers on Growth, Development, Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries	p. 122
Investment in Social Security: a Possible UN Model for Child Benefit?	p. 151
Social Protection in Europe and the OECD	p. 167
Three Models of Social Security in the History of the Industrialized Countries	p. 159
Social Protection, the European Union and its Member States	p. 190
Can the European Welfare Model be Exported?	p. 201
The Poverty Effects of Social Protection in Europe: EU Enlargement and its Lessons for Developing Countries	p. 220
Experiences from Low-Income Countries	p. 243
Social Security in Developing Countries: a Brief Overview	p. 245
Introducing Basic Social Protection in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Existing Programmes	p. 253
Social Protection, Rural Livelihoods and Economic Growth: the Case of Cash Transfers in Malawi, Ethiopia and Bangladesh	p. 274
Welfare, Development and Growth: Lessons from South Africa	p. 290
From Targeting to Universality: Lessons from the Health System in Thailand	p. 310
Conclusions	p. 323
Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development	p. 325
References	p. 338
Index	p. 366
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