(Apologies for cross-posting)
'Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America:
Social Policy in Development Contexts'
Ian Gough and Geof Wood, with Armando Barrientos, Philippa Bevan, Peter
Davis, and Graham Room
Cambridge University Press, £50.00 / $75.00
February 2004 | Hardback | 384 pages 17 tables 19 figures 2 maps |
ISBN: 0521834198
Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book
explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the
public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the
world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through
state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of
the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in
poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance
and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare (or
illfare) regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as
landlords, moneylenders and patrons. This book seeks to develop a new
conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare
regime in a range of countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and
makes an important contribution to the literature by breaking away from
the traditional focus on Europe and North America.
Contents
Introduction: Ian Gough and Geof Wood
Part I. Understanding Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in the South: An
Analytical Framework
1. Welfare regimes in development contexts: a global and regional
analysis: Ian Gough
2. Informal security regimes: embedding social policy in the search for
a secure institutional landscape: Geof Wood
3. Conceptualising in/security regimes: Philippa Bevan
Part II. Regional Regimes
4. Latin America: towards a liberal-informal welfare regime: Armando
Barrientos
5. East Asia: the limits of productivist regimes: Ian Gough
6. The dynamics of Africa<RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK>s in/security regimes: Philippa Bevan
Part III. Regimes in Global Context
7. Rethinking the welfare regime approach in the context of Bangladesh:
Peter Davis
8. Multi-tiered international welfare systems: Graham Room
Conclusion: Geof Wood and Ian Gough.
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Ian Gough AcSS
Professor of Social Policy
Deputy Director, ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing
Countries (WeD)
Department of Social and Policy Sciences
University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
England
Tel: +44 (0)1225 386738
Fax: +44 (0)1225 384848
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Website: www.welldev.org.uk
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