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Building decent societies: rethinking the role of social security in development/ edited by Peter Townsend

Contributor(s): Townsend, Peter, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2009Description: xxii, 386 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780230235250Subject(s): Poverty--Prevention | Developing countries | Income maintenance programs | Social policy | Social sciencesDDC classification: 362.58091724

Contents:

Social security and human rights / Peter Townsend -- Social protection and nation-building: an essay on why and how Universalist social policy contributes to stable nation-states / Chris de Neubourg -- Social security, social impact and economic performance: a farewell to three famous myths / Michael Cichon and Wolfgang Scholz -- Can low-income countries afford social security? / Christina Behrendt and Kryzstztof Hagemejer -- The impact of social transfers on growth, development, poverty and inequality in developing countries / Michael Samson -- Investment in social security: a possible UN model for child benefit? / Peter Townsend -- Three models of social security in the history of the industrialized countries / Peter Townsend -- Social protection, the European Union and its member states / Raymond Wagener -- Can the European welfare model be exported? / Peter H. Lindert -- The poverty effects of social protection in Europe: EU enlargement and its lessons for developing countries / Bea Cantillon -- Social security in developing countries: a brief overview / Peter Townsend -- Introducing basic social protection in low-income countries: lessons from existing programmes / Armando Barrientos -- Social protection, rural livelihoods and economic growth: the case of cash transfers in Malawi, Ethiopia and Bangladesh / Rachel Slater, John Farrington, Rebecca Holmes and Paul Harvey -- Welfare, development and growth: lessons from South Africa / Francie Lund -- From targeting to universality: lessons from the health system in Thailand / Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Phusit Prakongsai, Supon Limwattananon, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol and Pongpisut Jongudomsuk -- Rethinking the role of social security in development / Christina Behrendt, Michael Cichon, Krzysztof Hagemejer, Stephen Kidd, Rüdiger Krech and Peter Townsend.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	362.58091724 TOW/B (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P10835

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Social security and human rights / Peter Townsend --
Social protection and nation-building: an essay on why and how Universalist social policy contributes to stable nation-states / Chris de Neubourg --
Social security, social impact and economic performance: a farewell to three famous myths / Michael Cichon and Wolfgang Scholz --
Can low-income countries afford social security? / Christina Behrendt and Kryzstztof Hagemejer --
The impact of social transfers on growth, development, poverty and inequality in developing countries / Michael Samson --
Investment in social security: a possible UN model for child benefit? / Peter Townsend --
Three models of social security in the history of the industrialized countries / Peter Townsend --
Social protection, the European Union and its member states / Raymond Wagener --
Can the European welfare model be exported? / Peter H. Lindert --
The poverty effects of social protection in Europe: EU enlargement and its lessons for developing countries / Bea Cantillon --
Social security in developing countries: a brief overview / Peter Townsend --
Introducing basic social protection in low-income countries: lessons from existing programmes / Armando Barrientos --
Social protection, rural livelihoods and economic growth: the case of cash transfers in Malawi, Ethiopia and Bangladesh / Rachel Slater, John Farrington, Rebecca Holmes and Paul Harvey --
Welfare, development and growth: lessons from South Africa / Francie Lund --
From targeting to universality: lessons from the health system in Thailand / Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Phusit Prakongsai, Supon Limwattananon, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol and Pongpisut Jongudomsuk --
Rethinking the role of social security in development / Christina Behrendt, Michael Cichon, Krzysztof Hagemejer, Stephen Kidd, Rüdiger Krech and Peter Townsend.

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