The Welfare State Revisited

✍ Scribed by José Antonio Ocampo (editor); Joseph E. Stiglitz (editor)

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 408
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever we need strong social programs to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. This book brings together distinguished contributors to examine global variations of social programs and make the case for a redesigned welfare state.

✦ Table of Contents

INITIATIVE FOR POLICY DIALOGUE AT COLUMBIA: CHALLENGES IN DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION
CONTENTS
ACRONYMS
PREFACE
PART 1
1. The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century
2. Adapting Labor and Social Protection Systems to Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
3. The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Latest Trends in Social Protection
4. Supporting Equal Opportunities Through Laws and Policies: Global Progress and Persisting Challenges
5. The Sustainable Development Goals, Domestic Resource Mobilization, and the Poor
6. Intrahousehold Inequality and Overall Inequality
7. Human Capital, Inequality, and Growth
PART II
8. The EU Welfare State: Past, Present, and Future
9. Visible Costs and Hidden Gains
10. Social Protection Systems in Latin America: Toward Universalism and Redistribution
11. Social Protection in Latin America: Some Challenges for Reducing Inequality
12. Do Competitive Markets of Individual Savings Accounts and Health Insurance Work as Part of the Welfare State?
13. Innovations in Protecting the Old: Mostly Social Insurance and Some Assets
14. Universal Basic Income and the Welfare State
15. Employment Guarantee in the Age of Precarity: The Case of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Contributors
Index