1st Edition

Social Protection in Developing Countries Reforming Systems

256 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms of social protection systems introduced in recent years by many governments of low and middle-income... Read more

Introduction Katja Bender, Markus Kaltenborn and Christian Pfleiderer Part 1: Social Protection Reforms: Objectives and Political Economy of Social Protection Reforms  1. Rescuing Social Protection from the Poverty Trap: New Programmes and Historical Lessons Sarah Cook  2. Social Protection for Poverty Reduction: Approaches, Effectiveness and Challenges Armando Barrientos  3. The Political Economy of Social Protection Reforms – What to Explain and How? Katja Bender  4. Social Cohesion: Does it matter for Growth and Development? Johannes Jütting and Annalisa Prizzon  Part 2: The Legal Framework of Social Protection Reforms  5. The Human Rights-Based Approach to Social Protection Markus Kaltenborn  6. The Role of Law and Legal Institutions in the Reform of Social Protection Systems: Experiences from South Africa Ockert Dupper  7. The Role of the Law of Regional Organisations in Reforms of Social Protection Systems: Portability of Social Security Benefits in the East African Community Tulia Ackson  8. Reforms of Social Protection Systems in Latin America—The Legal Context Lorena Ossio Bustillos  Part 3: Political Feasibility of Basic Social Protection  9. Attitudes towards Hard Work and Redistributive Preferences in Developing Countries Anil Duman  10. Populous, Precarious – Protected? The Paradox of Social Security for South Asian Agricultural Workers Karin Astrid Siegmann  11. Whom to Target – An Obvious Choice? Esther Schüring and Franziska Gassmann  12. How to target – Overview on current targeting methods in social protection Christian Pfleiderer  Part 4: Social Protection Systems – Between Fragmentation and Integration  13. Building Social Protection and Labour Systems David A. Robalino, Laura Rawlings and Ian Walker  14. The Political Economy of Social Protection Reforms in Indonesia Bambang Widianto  15. Social Protection Reforms in Vietnam: Experiences and Challenges Nguyen Thi Lan Huong and Matthias Meissner  16. Social Protection: Political Reform and Policy Innovations in South Asia Gabriele Koehler  17. Caring for the Urban Middle Class: The Political Economy of Social Protection in Arab Countries Markus Loewe  Part 5: Social Protection Reforms – International Contexts  18. Building National Social Protection Floors and Social Security Systems: The ILO's Two-Dimensional Social Security Strategy Christina Behrendt  19. Developing Countries’ Social Protection Measures in Reaction to the Global Economic and Financial Crisis Yanchun Zhang and Nina Thelen  20. Social Protection and the Four Horsemen of the Donor Apocalypse Nicholas Freeland

Biography

Katja Bender is Professor for Economic and Social Development at the International Centre for Sustainable Development, Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Markus Kaltenborn is Professor at the Faculty of Law and Director of the Institute of Development Research and Development Politics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Christian Pfleiderer is a project leader and head of the sector initiative Development and Integration of Social Protection Systems at the sustainable development specialist Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany.