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Moving beyond the 'post-Washington consensus', this book shifts the focus of development policy debates away from expenditures and austerity and towards revenues and resources. The book explores the potential and the developmental impact of different categories of resources for financing social policy in a development context.
List of contents
Foreword; T.Mkandawire Preface and Acknowledgements; K.Hujo & S.McClanahan List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes on the Contributors Introduction and Overview; K.Hujo & S.McClanahan PART I: GLOBAL DIMENSION: PARADIGMS AND RESOURCES Social Exclusion Policies and Labour Markets in Latin America; R.Lo Vuolo Financing for Development: International Redistribution; I.Ortiz PART II: TAXATION AND AID How Can Financing of Social Services be Pro-Poor?; E.Delamonica & S.Mehrotra Financing Developmental Social Policies in Low-Income Countries: Conditions and Constraints; A.Sindzingre Aid and the Financing of Public Social Sector Spending; O.Morrissey PART III: MINERAL RENTS Natural Resource Wealth, Development and Social Policy: Evidence and Issues; A.Rosser Mineral Rents and Social Policy: The Case of the Norwegian Government Oil Fund; E.Holmøy PART IV: SOCIAL INSURANCE AND PENSION FUNDS Social Insurance (Pensions and Health), Labour Markets and Coverage in Latin America; C.Mesa-Lago Pensions and Pension Funds in the Making of a Nation-State and a National Economy: The Case of Finland; O.Kangas Provident and Pension Funds and Economic Development in Selected Asian Countries; M.G.Asher PART V: REMITTANCES Remittances and Social Development; H.de Haas Remittances and Social Development: The Latin American Experience; M.Orozco Conclusions; K.Hujo & S.McClanahan
About the author
MUKUL G. ASHER Professor of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
HEIN DE HAAS Research Officer, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK
ENRIQUE DELAMONICA Saint Peter's College, New Jersey, USA
ERLING HOLMØY Research Department, Statistics Norway, Norway
OLLI KANGAS Research Professor, Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Finland
RUBÉN M. LO VUOLO Principal Researcher, Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas (Ciepp), Buenos Aires, Argentina
SANTOSH MEHROTRA Head, Rural Development Division, Planning Commission, Government of India, India
CARMELO MESA-LAGO Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, USA
OLIVER MORRISSEY Professor of Development Economics and Director of CREDIT, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, UK
MANUEL OROZCO Director, Remittances and Development, Inter-American Dialogue
ISABEL ORTIZ Senior Interregional Advisor, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, USA
ANDREW ROSSER Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia
ALICE SINDZINGRE Research Fellow, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris), France; University Paris-X (EconomiX), France; Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK; Associate Researcher, Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire (CEAN, CNRS, Bordeaux), France
Summary
Moving beyond the 'post-Washington consensus', this book shifts the focus of development policy debates away from expenditures and austerity and towards revenues and resources. The book explores the potential and the developmental impact of different categories of resources for financing social policy in a development context.
