State Building and Social Policies in Developing Countries: The Political Economy of Development

✍ Scribed by Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book moves away from the orthodox neoliberal paradigm to suggest a new framework linking social policy with citizenship and transformation. The interjection of nation building, public society and public provisioning to the study of education, healthcare and employment caters to the needs of citizens equitably. By combining and coagulating these three broad arenas of politico-economic discussion, this book takes a new approach to the analysis of social policymaking in developing countries to indicate the drivers and triggers of transformation. It makes comprehensive, thorough critical comparisons between the trajectories of developed and developing countries, finds out the gaps in transformation and suggests drivers for changes.

The intentions of social policymaking, as proposed in the book, are to curb the growing inequalities in the forms of class, power and marginalisation. The chapters on education focus on provisioning of public goods for skills formation, innovation and citizenship education. The sections on healthcare centre on universal health care as opposed to universal health coverage by analysing access, healthcare-seeking behaviour, price setting, market provisioning etc. For the chapters on employment, propositions are posited regarding the expansion of productive capacity, factor mobility and social security to ensure work for all.

Besides theorising education, healthcare and employment based on public provisioning by the people’s state, underwritten by a public society, the book provides feasible solutions through data sourced from all major international organisations. In addition, it recognises the unique postcolonial struggles and aspirations of the developing countries, and accordingly resorts to defining the normative principles, reflecting nuances, subtleties and peculiarities.

This book is a continuation of the author's Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Developing Countries: State, Citizenship and Transformation (Routledge) and will draw the attention of scholars and researchers who wish to gain a deeper understanding of, and pragmatic solutions to, social policies that address the transformational pathways of developing countries, accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I Introduction
1 State and Social Policies in Developing Countries
Introduction
Public Society
Public Goods
Trends in Education, Healthcare and Employment
Summary
References
2 Social Policy, Public Society and Public Provisioning in Developing Countries
Introduction
Public Society and Public Goods
A Review
A Framework
Components
Summary
References
Part II Education
3 Discourses on Investment in Human Capabilities
Introduction
A Review
A Framework
Summary
References
4 Education: Provisioning, Skill Formation and Citizenship
Introduction
Public Good and Market Provisioning
Skills Formation and Employment
Innovation and Education
Citizenship Education and Citizen State
Summary
References
5 Institutions and Transformational Pathways for Education in Developing Countries
Introduction
Political Settlement and Human Sociality
Education and Government Expenditure: A Simulation
Impact of COVID-19
Policy Roadmap
Summary
References
Part III Healthcare
6 Debates on Provisioning of Healthcare in Developing Countries
Introduction
A Review
Stylised Facts
A Framework
Summary
References
7 Universal Health Care: Provisioning and Accessibility
Introduction
Socially Embedded Values
Firms and Price Setting
Market Provisioning and Universal Access
Country Spotlight: Accessibility Barriers in Bangladesh
Health Expenditure and Economic Life
Summary
References
8 Institutions and Transformation of Healthcare in Developing Countries
Introduction
Stability and Healthcare Provision
Transformability and Healthcare
Sustainability and Health Shocks
Policy Roadmap
Summary
References
Part IV Employment and Social Security
9 Disquisitions on Employment and Social Security
Introduction
A Review
A Framework
Summary
References
10 Work for All: Skills, Productivity and Wages
Introduction
Productive Capacity and Skills Formation
Factor Mobility, Wages and Inequality
Productivity and Labour Extraction Function
Spotlight: Employment Trends in Bangladesh
Summary
References
11 Universal Social Security in Developing Countries
Introduction
A Framework
Social Security for All
Social Security Spending
Summary
References
12 Institutions and Transformation for Universal Employment and Social Security in Developing Countries
Introduction
Stability Conditions
Transformability Conditions
Sustainability Conditions
Policy Roadmap
Summary
References
Part V Conclusions
13 Social Policy Agenda for Developing Countries
Index