Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America - Social Policy in Development Contexts

Informationen zum Autor Ian Gough is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath and Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy. Professor Geof Wood is Head of the Department of Economics and International Development and Director of the Institute for International Policy Analysis at the University of Bath. Armando Barrientos is Lecturer in Public Economics and Development at the Institute for Development and Management at the University of Manchester. Philippa Bevan is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology of Development at the University of Bath. Peter Davis is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath. Graham Room is Professor of European Social Policy at the University of Bath. Klappentext Explores the conditions under which social policy operates in the poorer regions of the world. Zusammenfassung This book seeks to develop a new 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....

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• Authors: Armando Barrientos, Barrientos Armando, Bevan Philippa, Peter Davis, Ian Gough, Ian (University of Bath) Wood Gough, Ian Wood Gough, Gough Ian, Room Graham, Geof Wood, Wood Geof
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521087995
• ISBN: 978-0-521-08799-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Africa, Social issues & processes, Social welfare and social services, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Development Studies, Welfare & benefit systems