TY - BOOK AU - Townsend, Peter, ed. TI - Building decent societies: rethinking the role of social security in development SN - 9780230235250 U1 - 362.58091724 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillian KW - Poverty--Prevention KW - Developing countries KW - Income maintenance programs KW - Social policy KW - Social sciences N1 - 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 ER -