Financing Social Policy

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.

ISBN 0230576648   Pages 400 ISBN13 9780230576643 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Weight (grammes) 735 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Format Hardback   Series title Social Policy in a Development Context Series Publication date 09 Oct 2009   Height (mm) 242 Library of Congress HN18   Width (mm) 164 DEWEY 353.524   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		List of Tables and Figures
		Foreword by Thandika Mkandawire
		Preface and Acknowledgements by Katja Hujo and Shea McClanahan
		List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
1		Introduction and Overview by Katja Hujo and Shea McClanahan
Pt. I		Global Dimension: Paradigms and Resources
2		Social Exclusion Policies and Labour Markets in Latin America by Ruben M. Lo Vuolo
3		Financing for Development: International Red istribution by Isabel Ortiz
Pt. II		Taxation and Aid
4		How Can the Financing o f Social Services be Made Pro-Poor? by Enrique Delamonica and Santosh Mehrotra
5		Financing Developmental Social Policies in Low-Income Countries: Conditions and Constraints by Alice Sindzingre
6		Aid and the Financing of Public Social Sector Spending by Oliver Morrissey
Pt. III		Mineral Rents
7		Natural Resource Wealth, Development and Social Policy: Evidence and Issues by Andrew Rosser
8		Mineral Rents and Social Policy: The Case of the Norwegian Government Oil Fund by Erling Holmoy
Pt. IV		Social Insurance and Pension Funds
9		Social Insurance (Pensions and Health), Labour Markets and Coverage in Latin America by Carmela Mesa-Logo
10		Pensions and Pension Funds in the Making of a Nation-State and a National Economy: The Case of Finland by Olli E. Kangas
11		Provident and Pension Funds and Economic Develo pment in Selected Asian Countries by Mukul G. Asher
Pt. V		Remittances
12		Remittances and Social Development by Hein de Haas
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