Financing Social Policy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction and Overview

   1. Introduction and Overview

      • Katja Hujo, Shea McClanahan

      Pages 1-23

3. Global Dimension: Paradigms and Resources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Social Exclusion Policies and Labour Markets in Latin America

      • Rubén M. Lo Vuolo

      Pages 27-52

   3. Financing for Development: International Redistribution

      • Isabel Ortiz

      Pages 53-85

4. Taxation and Aid

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. How Can the Financing of Social Services be Made Pro-Poor?

      • Enrique Delamonica, Santosh Mehrotra

      Pages 89-114

   3. Financing Developmental Social Policies in Low-Income Countries: Conditions and Constraints

      • Alice Sindzingre

      Pages 115-140

   4. Aid and the Financing of Public Social Sector Spending

      • Oliver Morrissey

      Pages 141-162

5. Mineral Rents

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Natural Resource Wealth, Development and Social Policy: Evidence and Issues

      • Andrew Rosser

      Pages 165-182

   3. Mineral Rents and Social Policy: The Case of the Norwegian Government Oil Fund

      • Erling Holmøy

      Pages 183-212

6. Social Insurance and Pension Funds

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. Social Insurance (Pensions and Health), Labour Markets and Coverage in Latin America

      • Carmelo Mesa-Lago

      Pages 215-245

   3. Pensions and Pension Funds in the Making of a Nation-State and a National Economy: The Case of Finland

      • Olli E. Kangas

      Pages 246-263

   4. Provident and Pension Funds and Economic Development in Selected Asian Countries

      • Mukul G. Asher

      Pages 264-289

7. Remittances

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291

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   2. Remittances and Social Development

      • Hein de Haas

      Pages 293-318

   3. Remittances and Social Development: The Latin American Experience

      • Manuel Orozco

      Pages 319-351

   4. Conclusions

      • Katja Hujo, Shea McClanahan

      Pages 353-361

Moving beyond the 'post-Washington consensus', this book shifts the focus of development policy debates away from expenditures and austerity and towards revenues and resources. The book explores the potential and the developmental impact of different categories of resources for financing social policy in a development context.

• development
• Economic Development
• labor market
• service
• social policy
• taxation

• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, Switzerland

  Katja Hujo, Shea McClanahan

• University of Texas, Austin, USA

  Shea McClanahan

MUKUL G. ASHER Professor of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore HEIN DE HAAS Research Officer, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK ENRIQUE DELAMONICA Saint Peter's College, New Jersey, USA ERLING HOLMØY Research Department, Statistics Norway, Norway OLLI KANGAS Research Professor, Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Finland RUBÉN M. LO VUOLO Principal Researcher, Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas (Ciepp), Buenos Aires, Argentina SANTOSH MEHROTRA Head, Rural Development Division, Planning Commission, Government of India, India CARMELO MESA-LAGO Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, USA OLIVER MORRISSEY Professor of Development Economics and Director of CREDIT, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, UK MANUEL OROZCO Director, Remittances and Development, Inter-American Dialogue ISABEL ORTIZ Senior Interregional Advisor, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, USA ANDREW ROSSER Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia ALICE SINDZINGRE Research Fellow, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris), France; University Paris-X (EconomiX), France; Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK; Associate Researcher, Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire (CEAN, CNRS, Bordeaux), France

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