Social Assistance in Developing Countries

Informationen zum Autor Armando Barrientos is Professor and Research Director at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester. His research interests focus on the linkages between welfare programmes and labour markets in developing countries, and on policies addressing poverty, vulnerability and population ageing. His most recent books are Just Give Money to the Poor (2010, with J. Hanlon and D. Hulme), Demographics, Employment and Old Age Security: Emerging Trends and Challenges in South Asia (2010, edited with Moneer Alam) and Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest (2008, edited with D. Hulme). Klappentext This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries. Zusammenfassung This book provides the first comprehensive account of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries. It explains the emergence of programmes such as Brazil's Bolsa Família, India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and South Africa's Child Support Grant, and examines their potential to address global poverty. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. The emergence of social assistance in developing countries; Part II. Foundations: 2. Ethical foundations; 3. Poverty concepts and measures for social assistance; 4. Optimal anti-poverty transfers; Part III. Practice: 5. Anti-poverty transfers in practice; 6. Incidence, implementation and impact; 7. Budgets, finance and politics; Part IV. Conclusion: 8. The future of social assistance in developing countries.

Product details

• Authors: Armando Barrientos, Armando (University of Manchester) Barrientos, Barrientos Armando
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107562608
• ISBN: 978-1-107-56260-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Developing Countries, Political Economy, Social welfare and social services, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Global South / Developing countries