Towards a New Poverty Agenda in Asia

Social Policies and Economic Transformation
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-81-321-0504-6
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

This book describes the role of social policy in the context of globalization and rapidly changing economies and societies in Asia. It compares the social policy experience of a number of countries with a focus on comparing East Asian (China, Indonesia, Vietnam), and South Asian (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) models and experiences.
Over the last decade, particularly since the Asian financial crisis, and globalization, extension of social protection to people affected by crisis has been the main theme in national and international policy alike. In comparing the way social policy has evolved and studying its effects in various countries of Asia, the author provides a wide canvas and succeeds in bringing out similarities as well as differences in the individual experiences, while simultaneously providing explanations. His research brings together three separate streams of study in its scope-politics, sociology and economics-to analyse the ground reality of Asian experiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Haan, Arjan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: SOCIAL POLICY IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
Why Social Policy Matters
Globalization: All Boats Rising or Growing Divides?
Demise of the State?
International Development and Social Policy
PART TWO: SOCIAL POLICY REGIMES
Latin America: From Corporatism to Liberalism
The Short Era of the Developmental State in Africa
East Asia: Social Policy's Role in Economic Success
South Asian Welfarism
PART THREE: CONCLUSION
A Normative Framework for Social Policy
Annexure: Selected Data on Well-Being and Government Spending
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

De Haan, Arjan
Arjan de Haan is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague, where he is the Convenor of the MA specialization in Population, Poverty and Social Development. Before joining the ISS in 2009 he worked for the UK Department for International Development (DFID), including three years in India and most recently three years in China. His publications include Reclaiming Social Policy (2007), How the Aid Industry Works (2009), and edited volumes with Ben Rogaly on Labour Mobility and Rural Society (2002) and with Xiaobo Zhang and Shenggen Fan on Narratives of Chinese Economic Reforms (2010).