Research Catalog

Title

Social protection for the poor and poorest : concepts, policies and politics / edited by Armando Barrientos and David Hulme.

Publication

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Additional Authors

• Barrientos, Armando.
• Hulme, David.
• University of Manchester. Brooks World Poverty Institute.
• Chronic Poverty Research Centre.

Description

xxiii, 344 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in development

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in development.

Subject

• Social security
• Public welfare
• Poverty
• Poor > Services for

Note

• "In association with the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester and the Chronic Poverty Research Centre."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Includes web resources.

Contents

Social protection for the poor and poorest : an introduction / Armando Barrientos and David Hulme -- Risks, needs and rights : compatible or contradictory bases for social protection / Lauchlan T. Munro -- Insurance for the poor? / Stefan Dercon, Tessa Bold and Cesar Calvo -- Transformative social protection : the currency of social justice / Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Stephen Devereux -- Poverty traps and natural disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras / Michael R. Carter, Peter D. Little, Tewodaj Mogues and Workneh Negatu -- Indonesia's social protection during and after the crisis / Sudarno Sumarto, Asep Suryahadi and Sami Bazzi -- HIV/AIDS, social protection and chronic poverty / Rachel Slater -- The social protection function of short-term public works programmes in the context of chronic poverty / Anna McCord -- The emergence and popularity of conditional cash transfers in Latin America / Tatiana Feitosa de Britto -- Assisting the poorest in Bangladesh : learning from BRAC's 'targeting the ultra-poor' programme / David Hulme and Karen Moore -- Protecting the poorest with cash transfers in low income countries / Bernd Schubert -- Process deficits in the provision of social protection in rural Maharashtra / Sony Pellissery -- Conceptualising the politics of social protection in Africa / Sam Hickey -- Political incumbency and drought relief in Africa / Ngonidzashe Munemo -- Can low income countries in sub-Saharan Africa afford basic social protection? First results of a modelling exercise / Christina Behrendt -- Financing social protection / Armando Barrientos -- Embedding social protection in the developing world / Armando Barrientos and David Hulme.

ISBN

• 023052530X (alk. paper)
• 9780230525306 (hdbk)

LCCN

• 2008000185
• 40015511135

OCLC

• ocn191009647
• 191009647
• SCSB-5414832

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