Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America
Subtitle: Social Policy in Development Contexts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521834193
Subjects: Development studies; Social issues; Welfare & benefit systems; Sociology; Public Policy - Social Policy; Third World Development; Social Science; Social policy; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Social Science / Sociology / General; Sociology - General; Developing Countries; Public welfare
First sentence: The purpose of this chapter is to adapt the welfare regime paradigm in order to throw light on social policy and human development in the contemporary world, and to instigate an empirical analysis to map the pattern of regimes across the developing and transitional zones of the global system.