Social Security in Developing Countries Hardback
Edited by Ehtisham (Senior Economist, Fiscal Affairs Department, Senior Economist, Fiscal Affairs Depar Ahmad, Jean (, Delhi School of Economics) Dreze, John (Co-Director, Co-Director, London School of Economics Welfare State Programme) Hills, Amartya, FBA (Lamont Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Lamont Professor of Economics and P Sen
Part of the WIDER Studies in Development Economics series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:496 pages, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/02/1991
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- ISBN:9780198233008
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:496 pages, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/02/1991
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198233008