Social Protection in Developing Countries: Reforming Systems

ISBN-13: 9780415641012 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str.

Katja Bender; Markus Kaltenborn; Christian Pfleiderer

Opis

Ensuring universal access to health systems and providing support to the poor and near-poor as well as establishing systems of old age protection are among the core areas of political interest in international development debates. This book explores the reforms of social protection systems which in recent years many governments of low- and middle-income countries have started to introduce.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Social Protection Reforms: Objectives and Political Economy of Social Protection Reforms  1. Rescuing Social Protection from the Poverty Trap: New Programmes and Historical Lessons  2. Social Protection for Poverty Reduction: Approaches, Effectiveness and Challenges  3. The Political Economy of Social Protection Reforms – What to Explain and How?  4. Social Cohesion: Does it matter for Growth and Development?  Part 2: The Legal Framework of Social Protection Reforms  5. The Human Rights-Based Approach to Social Protection  6. The Role of Law and Legal Institutions in the Reform of Social Protection Systems: Experiences from South Africa  7. The Role of the Law of Regional Organisations in Reforms of Social Protection Systems: Portability of Social Security Benefits in the East African Community  8. Reforms of Social Protection Systems in Latin America—The Legal Context  Part 3: Political Feasibility of Basic Social Protection  9. Attitudes towards Hard Work and Redistributive Preferences in Developing Countries  10. Populous, Precarious – Protected? The Paradox of Social Security for South Asian Agricultural Workers  11. Whom to Target – An Obvious Choice?  12. How to target – Overview on current targeting methods in social protection  Part 4: Social Protection Systems – Between Fragmentation and Integration  13. Building Social Protection and Labour Systems  14. The Political Economy of Social Protection Reforms in Indonesia  15. Social Protection Reforms in Vietnam: Experiences and Challenges  16. Social Protection: Political Reform and Policy Innovations in South Asia  17. Caring for the Urban Middle Class: The Political Economy of Social Protection in Arab Countries  Part 5: Social Protection Reforms – International Contexts  18. Building National Social Protection Floors and Social Security Systems: The ILO's Two-Dimensional Social Security Strategy  19. Developing Countries’ Social Protection Measures in Reaction to the Global Economic and Financial Crisis  20. Social Protection and the Four Horsemen of the Donor Apocalypse

O autorze

Katja Bender is Professor for Economic and Social Development at the International Centre for Sustainable Development, Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Markus Kaltenborn is Professor at the Faculty of Law and Director of the Institute of Development Research and Development Politics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Christian Pfleiderer is a project leader and head of the sector initiative Development and Integration of Social Protection Systems at the sustainable development specialist Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany.