Welfare states and the future
By: edited by B. Vivekanandan and Nimmi Kurian
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780230554917
Subjects: Welfare state; Economics; Cross-cultural studies; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-371) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Welfare states in perspective / Pradip Bose; title: Economic foundations of welfare state systems / Sandwip Kumar Das; title: A world economy based on the welfare state principle / Hartmut Elsehans; title: Globalization and welfare states / Ramesh Mishra; title: The British welfare state : development and challenges / Tom Burden; title: The welfare state system in France / Sophie Nadal; title: The welfare state in postwar Germany / Lutz Leisering; title: The welfare state in Austria / Emmerich Talos and Marcel Fink; title: The Swedish welfare state and new challenges / Nimmi Kurian; title: Political economy of the Finnish welfare state / Jukka Pekkarinen; title: Challenges facing the Danish welfare state / Jørn Henrik Petersen; title: Modernization of the European model of social protection / Joakim Palme; title: Recent welfare reforms in the United States / Asha Gupta; title: Canada's changing welfare state / B. Vivekanandan; title: Welfare designs and peripheral realities : the Brazilian dilemma / Dilip Loundo; title: South Africa : reflections on establishing a welfare state / Albert J. Venter; title: The welfare state in Japan and China : development and challenges / Christian Aspalter; title: The welfare state system in India / Anand Kumar.