Financing social policy
Subtitle: mobilizing resources for social development
By: edited by Katja Hujo and Shea McClanahan
Contributors: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Series: Social policy in a development context
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780230576643
Subjects: Finance; Finanzas; Social policy; Entwicklung; Política social; Finanzierung; Asistencia social; Sozialpolitik; Entwicklungsfinanzierung; Economic aspects
Description: There has never been a more urgent need for governments to secure adequate and stable resources for social development: inequalities are on the rise, a severe global food crisis threatens to eliminate the achievements some countries have made over recent years, and the neoliberal policy toolkit has been largely discredited. 'Financing Social Policy' shifts the policy debates beyond examining expenditures and austerity, to revenues and resources. It examines financing options that would be conducive to social development, creating and strengthening sustainable social programmes that work together with economic policies. The contributors in this volume explore the economic, social and political implications and the developmental impact of a wide range of potential resources - including taxation, aid, mineral rents, social insurance, pension funds and remittances - for financing social policy in development countries.
Notes: Published in association with UNRISD.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview / Katja Hujo and Shea McClanahan; title: Social exclusion policies and labour markets in Latin America / Ruben M. Lo Vuolo; title: Financing for development: international redistribution / Isabel Ortiz; title: How can the financing of social services be made pro-poor? / Enrique Delamonica and Santosh Mehrotra; title: Financing developmental social policies in low-income countries: conditions and constraints / Alic Sindzingre; title: Aid and the financing of public social sector spending / Oliver Morrissey; title: Natural resource wealth, development and social policy: evidence and issues / Andrew Rosser; title: Mineral rents and social policy: the case of the Norwegian government oil fund / Erling Holmoy; title: Social insurance (pensions and health), labour markets and coverage in Latin America / Carmelo Mesa-Lago; title: Pensions and pension funds in the making of a nation-state and a national economy: the case of Finland / Olli E. Kangas; title: Provident and pension funds and economic development in selected Asian countries / Mukul G. Asher; title: Remittance and social development / Hein de Haas; title: Remittances and social development: the Latin American experience / Manuel Orozco - Conclusions / Katja Hujo and Shea McClanahan.