Social Policy in a Development Context (Hardcover)

List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Social Policy in a Development Context: Introduction; T.Mkandawire PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES From Universalism to Safety Nets: The Rise and Fall of Keynesian Influence on Social Development; P.Townsend Social Policy and Macroeconomic Performance: Integrating "the Economic" and "the Social"; D.Elson Social Policy and Development: Social Capital as Point of Departure; B.Fine Democratization and Social Policy; L.Whitehead PART II: MICRO AND MESO-LEVEL ISSUES Why Social Policy is Condemned to a Residual Category of Safety Nets and What to do About It; J.Tendler Inequality and Redistribution in Health Care: Analytical Issues for Developmental Social Policy; M.Mackintosh & P.Tibandebage Models of Development, Social Policy and Reform in Latin America; C.Mesa-Lago PART III: HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES European 'Late Industrializers': The Finnish Experience; J.Vartiainen 'Late Industrializers' and the Development of the Welfare State; C.Pierson The Role of Social Policy in Economic Development: Some Theoretical Reflections And Lessons From East Asia; H-J.Chang The Economic Crisis and the Politics of Welfare Reform in Korea; H-J.Kwon Social Policy in Indian Development; J.Ghosh Historical Trajectories of Social Policy in Post-Colonial Africa. The Case of Zambia; G.Mhone Index