Research Catalog

Title

• Financing social policy : mobilizing resources for social development / edited by Katja Hujo and Shea McClanahan.

Publication

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Hujo, Katja
• McClanahan, Shea.
• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.

Description

xx, 379 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

There has never been a more urgent need for governments to secure adequate and stable resources for social development: inequalities are on the rise, a severe global food crisis threatens to eliminate the achievements some countries have made over recent years, and the neoliberal policy toolkit has been largely discredited. 'Financing Social Policy' shifts the policy debates beyond examining expenditures and austerity, to revenues and resources. It examines financing options that would be conducive to social development, creating and strengthening sustainable social programmes that work together with economic policies. The contributors in this volume explore the economic, social and political implications and the developmental impact of a wide range of potential resources - including taxation, aid, mineral rents, social insurance, pension funds and remittances - for financing social policy in development countries.

Series Statement

• Social policy in a development context

Uniform Title

Social policy in a development context.

Subject

• Asistencia social > Países en desarrollo > Finanzas
• Development economics
• Entwicklung
• Entwicklungsfinanzierung
• Finance and Accounting
• Finanzierung
• POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration
• Public finance
• Social omsorg
• Social policy > Economic aspects
• Social policy > Finance
• Social policy > Finance
• Social welfare & social services
• Socialpolitik > ekonomi
• Socialpolitik > ekonomiska aspekter
• Sozialpolitik

Note

• Published in association with UNRISD.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Social Exclusion Policies and Labour Markets in Latin America / R. Lo Vuolo -- Financing for Development: International Redistribution / I. Ortiz -- How Can Financing of Social Services be Pro-Poor? / E. Delamonica and 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 -- 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. Holm̜y -- 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 -- Remittances and Social Development / H.de Haas -- Remittances and Social Development: The Latin American Experience / M. Orozco.

ISBN

• 9780230576643 (hbk.)
• 0230576648 (hbk.)

OCLC

294885530

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library