The Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers: How States and International Organizations Constructed a New Instrument for Combating Poverty

ISBN-13: 9780198754336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 480 str.

Lutz Leisering

Opis

This volume analyses the phenomenon of social cash transfers in the global South, providing a definitive and comprehensive overview of current practice.

O autorze

Lutz Leisering is Professor of Social Policy in the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany, and founding member of the Institute for World Society Studies. He has published empirical, theoretical, and comparative studies of social policy in Europe and the global South, especially on old-age security, social assistance, global social policy, and the global diffusion of ideas. His publications include German Social Policy (5 volumes, Springer, 2013), The New Regulatory State: Regulating Pensions in Germany and the UK (Edited, Palgrave, 2011), and Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States: United Germany in Perspective (CUP, 1999).