Social Policy in a Development Context

✍ Scribed by Thandika Mkandawire (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 362
• Series: Social Policy in a Development Context
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drawing upon both conceptual and empirical evidence, this volume argues the case for the centrality of social policy in development, focusing particularly on the message that social policy needs to be closely intertwined with economic policy. It is argued that social policy can provide the crucial link between economic development poverty eradication and equity. This volume is a significant contribution to thinking about social policy in a development context.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Social Policy in a Development Context: Introduction....Pages 1-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
From Universalism to Safety Nets: The Rise and Fall of Keynesian Influence on Social Development....Pages 37-62
Social Policy and Macroeconomic Performance: Integrating ‘the Economic’ and ‘the Social’....Pages 63-79
Social Policy and Development: Social Capital as Point of Departure....Pages 80-96
Democratization and Social Policy....Pages 97-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Why Social Policy is Condemned to a Residual Category of Safety Nets and What to Do About it....Pages 119-142
Inequality and Redistribution in Health Care: Analytical Issues for Developmental Social Policy....Pages 143-174
Models of Development, Social Policy and Reform in Latin America....Pages 175-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
European ‘Late Industrialized’: The Finnish Experience....Pages 205-214
’Late Industrializers’ and the Development of the Welfare State....Pages 215-245
The Role of Social Policy in Economic Development: Some Theoretical Reflections and Lessons from East Asia....Pages 246-261
The Economic Crisis and the Politics of Welfare Reform in Korea....Pages 262-283
Social Policy in Indian Development....Pages 284-307
Historical Trajectories of Social Policy in Post-Colonial Africa: The Case of Zambia....Pages 308-337
Back Matter....Pages 339-354

✦ Subjects

Development Economics; Development Studies; Political Science; Social Policy