Social security in developing countries
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Social security in developing countries
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The term `social security' has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries and is best understood as poverty alleviation. This book attempts to define social security in the Third World and to examine what sort of programmes are most suitable for developing countries.
The authors review current literature on the subject. Some chapters explore broad themes, others describe social security provisions in various regions in India, China, Latin America, and Southern Africa. Western systems are compared and broad assessments made of the traditional social security systems in Third World village societies.
The editors aim to put the subject of social security firmly on the agenda of development economic research with a view to stimulate much further research in this area. The book is written in a way that will be accessible to a much wider audience.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- PART I: General Issues: Jean Dreze & Amartya Sen: Public action for Social Security: Foundations and strategy
- Robin Burgess & Nicholas Stern: Social Security in developing countries: What, why, who and how?
- A. B. Atkinson & John Hills: Social Security in developed countries: Are there lessons for developing countries?
- Jean-Philippe Platteau: Traditional systems of Social Security and hunger insurance: Past achievements and modern challenges
- Bina Agarwal: Social Security and the family: Coping with seasonality and calamity in rural India
- PART II: Case Studies: Ehtisham Ahmad & Athar Hussain: Social Security in China: A historical perspective
- S. R. Osmani: Social Security in South Asia
- Carmelo Mesa-Lago: Social Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: A comparative assessment
- Joachim von Braun: Social Security in sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections on policy challenges
- Richard Morgan: Social Security in the SADCC States of Southern Africa: Social welfare programmes and the reduction of household vulnerability
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