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Social Assistance in Developing Countries
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107039025
Veröffentl:
2015
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
02.11.2015
Seiten:
272
Autor:
Armando Barrientos
Gewicht:
551 g
Format:
235x157x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Armando Barrientos is Professor and Research Director at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester. His research interests focus on the linkages between welfare programmes and labour markets in developing countries, and on policies addressing poverty, vulnerability and population ageing. His most recent books are Just Give Money to the Poor (2010, with J. Hanlon and D. Hulme), Demographics, Employment and Old Age Security: Emerging Trends and Challenges in South Asia (2010, edited with Moneer Alam) and Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest (2008, edited with D. Hulme).
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries.
Part I. Introduction: 1. The emergence of social assistance in developing countries; Part II. Foundations: 2. Ethical foundations; 3. Poverty concepts and measures for social assistance; 4. Optimal anti-poverty transfers; Part III. Practice: 5. Anti-poverty transfers in practice; 6. Incidence, implementation and impact; 7. Budgets, finance and politics; Part IV. Conclusion: 8. The future of social assistance in developing countries.