Ian Gough

Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America (eBook, PDF)

Social Policy in Development Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139239226
• Artikelnr.: 41499941

Autorenporträt

Ian Gough is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath and Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Ian Gough and Geof Wood; Part I. Understanding Insecurity and
Welfare Regimes in the South: An Analytical Framework: 1. Adapting welfare
regimes to development contexts Ian Gough; 2. Informal security regimes:
embedding social policy in the search for a secure institutional landscape
Geof Wood; 3. Conceptualising in/security regimes Philippa Bevan; Part II.
Regional Regimes: 4. Latin America: towards a liberal-informal welfare
regime Armando Barrientos; 5. East Asia: the limits of productivist regimes
Ian Gough; 6. The dynamics of Africa's in/security regimes Philippa Bevan;
Part III. Regimes in Global Context: 7. Rethinking the welfare regime
approach in the context of Bangladesh Peter Davis; 8. Multi-tiered
international welfare systems Graham Room; Conclusion Geof Wood and Ian
Gough.