Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America
Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America
Geof Wood, University of Bath
Armando Barrientos, University of Manchester
Philippa Bevan, University of Bath
Peter Davis, University of Bath
Graham Room, University of Bath
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Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as landlords, moneylenders and patrons. This book seeks to develop a conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regime in a range of countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and makes an important contribution to the literature by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America.
- Comparative political economy of global welfare regimes
- Integrates intellectual traditions of social policy and development studies
- Establishes universalist needs for secure welfare, but met by relativist social and political means
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Review of the hardback: 'This is the book that social policy scholars have been awaiting a very long time. Thanks to Ian Gough, Geof Wood and their collaborators, we now have a rigorous, comprehensive, and extraordinarily nuanced and subtle analysis of social protection systems in the Third World. The scholarly challenge is truly formidable, and they have met it with courage and aplomb. Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America is one of those rare books that no welfare state scholar or practicioner can ignore.' Gosta Esping-Andersen
Product details
February 2004Hardback
9780521834193
384 pages
229 × 152 × 25 mm
0.76kg
2 maps 17 tables
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Ian Gough and Geof Wood
- Part I. Understanding Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in the South: An Analytical Framework:
- 1. Adapting welfare regimes to development contexts Ian Gough
- 2. Informal security regimes: embedding social policy in the search for a secure institutional landscape Geof Wood
- 3. Conceptualising in/security regimes Philippa Bevan
- Part II. Regional Regimes:
- 4. Latin America: towards a liberal-informal welfare regime Armando Barrientos
- 5. East Asia: the limits of productivist regimes Ian Gough
- 6. The dynamics of Africa's in/security regimes Philippa Bevan
- Part III. Regimes in Global Context:
- 7. Rethinking the welfare regime approach in the context of Bangladesh Peter Davis
- 8. Multi-tiered international welfare systems Graham Room
- Conclusion Geof Wood and Ian Gough.
