Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction and Overview....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Social Exclusion Policies and Labour Markets in Latin America....Pages 27-52
Financing for Development: International Redistribution....Pages 53-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
How Can the Financing of Social Services be Made Pro-Poor?....Pages 89-114
Financing Developmental Social Policies in Low-Income Countries: Conditions and Constraints....Pages 115-140
Aid and the Financing of Public Social Sector Spending....Pages 141-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Natural Resource Wealth, Development and Social Policy: Evidence and Issues....Pages 165-182
Mineral Rents and Social Policy: The Case of the Norwegian Government Oil Fund....Pages 183-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Social Insurance (Pensions and Health), Labour Markets and Coverage in Latin America....Pages 215-245
Pensions and Pension Funds in the Making of a Nation-State and a National Economy: The Case of Finland....Pages 246-263
Provident and Pension Funds and Economic Development in Selected Asian Countries....Pages 264-289
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Remittances and Social Development....Pages 293-318
Remittances and Social Development: The Latin American Experience....Pages 319-351
Conclusions....Pages 353-361
Back Matter....Pages 362-379