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Social Security in Developing Countries de Ehtisham Ahmad

Social Security in Developing Countries: WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Editat de Ehtisham Ahmad, Jean Drèze, John Hills, Amartya Sen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 feb 1991

Structura volumului Social Security in Developing Countries propune o tranziție riguroasă de la teorie la aplicații practice, fiind organizată în două părți esențiale: o analiză a fundamentelor strategice și o serie de studii de caz regionale exhaustive. Descoperim aici o redefinire necesară a termenului de „securitate socială”, care în contextul economiilor subdezvoltate nu se referă la sistemele de pensii occidentale, ci la mecanisme vitale de combatere a sărăciei extreme și a foametei. Reținem că autorii nu se limitează la modele teoretice, ci investighează modul în care structurile tradiționale din satele din „Lumea a Treia” au funcționat istoric ca plase de siguranță. Ca și P. Townsend în Building Decent Societies, editorii acestui volum distilează experiența reală în principii acționabile, demonstrând că politicile sociale sunt fundamentale pentru creșterea economică sustenabilă. Merită menționat că această lucrare poziționează securitatea socială ca temă centrală pe agenda cercetării economice, oferind o perspectivă comparativă între sistemele din China, Asia de Sud și America Latină. În contextul operei lui Ehtisham Ahmad, care în Fiscal Underpinnings for Sustainable Development in China explorează mecanismele fiscale de reechilibrare, volumul de față extinde analiza spre protecția umană directă. Este o resursă autoritară care demonstrează cum acțiunea publică poate preveni privațiunile majore în regiuni cu resurse limitate.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198233008
ISBN-10: 0198233000
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: tables
Dimensiuni: 163 x 236 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.9 kg
Editura: Clarendon Press
Colecția Clarendon Press
Seria WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte specialiștilor în politici publice și economiștilor care caută soluții concrete pentru reducerea sărăciei. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care pot fi adaptate sistemele de protecție socială la realitățile administrative și economice din țările în curs de dezvoltare. Este un instrument analitic esențial pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă legătura dintre securitatea individuală și stabilitatea economică regională.

Despre autor

Ehtisham Ahmad este un economist recunoscut pentru expertiza sa în descentralizare fiscală și reformă instituțională, publicând lucrări de referință precum Beneficial Property Taxation for Emerging Market Countries. Alături de el, Jean Drèze și laureatul Nobel Amartya Sen formează o echipă editorială de elită, renumită pentru contribuțiile fundamentale în domeniul economiei dezvoltării și al eticii economice. Acești autori au modelat discursul global despre foamete, gen și inegalitate, aducând în acest volum o rigoare academică dublată de o înțelegere profundă a realităților din teren în Asia și Africa.

Descriere

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.The term `social security' has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries and is best understood as poverty alleviation. This book attempts to define social security in the Third World and to examine what sort of programmes are most suitable for developing countries. The authors review current literature on the subject. Some chapters explore broad themes, others describe social security provisions in various regions in India, China, Latin America, and Southern Africa. Western systems are compared and broad assessments made of the traditional social security systems in Third World village societies. The editors aim to put the subject of social security firmly on the agenda of development economic research with a view to stimulate much further research in this area. The book is written in a way that will be accessible to a much wider audience.

Cuprins

Preface; List of contributors; PART I: General Issues: Jean Dréze & Amartya Sen: Public action for Social Security: Foundations and strategy; Robin Burgess & Nicholas Stern: Social Security in developing countries: What, why, who and how?; A. B. Atkinson & John Hills: Social Security in developed countries: Are there lessons for developing countries?; Jean-Philippe Platteau: Traditional systems of Social Security and hunger insurance: Past achievements and modern challenges; Bina Agarwal: Social Security and the family: Coping with seasonality and calamity in rural India; PART II: Case Studies: Ehtisham Ahmad & Athar Hussain: Social Security in China: A historical perspective; S. R. Osmani: Social Security in South Asia; Carmelo Mesa-Lago: Social Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: A comparative assessment; Joachim von Braun: Social Security in sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections on policy challenges; Richard Morgan: Social Security in the SADCC States of Southern Africa: Social welfare programmes and the reduction of household vulnerability

Recenzii

Sen and his associates deserve a lot of credit for bucking the general trend.
The editors of the volume under review should be commended for bringing together a series of essays which investigate the role of the modern state in developing countries. The volume is timely ... a useful and informative guide for anyone working in this field.
timely set of essays ... This book provides an excellent and balanced review of differdent types of state intervention and their pros and cons in the context of poor societies. This is an impressive set of essays with only a minimum of duplication and covering a wide-ranging and difficult area with great clarity.
The book undoubtedly is a classic on the subject and covers a very wide area.
this book is both important and interesting; but there is more than that to it. The papers included here contain a wealth of material, both on the theoretical issues of policy aims and policy strategies, and on the detail of different social security strategies and achievements in a wide range of developing countries ... a stimulating as well as an informative text ... those concerned with a global understanding of what we mean by social security and what we can achieve through it will not be disappointed with what they find.

Notă biografică

Ehtisham Ahmad is an economist currently directing the Financing Sustainable Urban Transitions with the Coalition of Urban Transitions. Ahmad is a Senior Fellow at the University of Bonn and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics since 2010. Ahmad held senior positions in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund for two decades. Jean Drèze, development economist, has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989), An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013), and Sense and Solidarity (OUP: 2019).John Hills is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics. His research interests include income distribution and the welfare state, social security, housing and taxation. He led an independent review of the measurement of fuel poverty for the Department of Energy and Climate Change that reported in March 2012. He was also Chair of the National Equality Panel (2008-2010), carried out a review of the aims of social housing for the Secretary of State for Communities in 2006-07 and was one of the three members of the UK Pensions Commission from 2003 to 2006. He was Co-Director of the LSE's Welfare State Programme (1988-1997), and Senior Adviser to the Commission of Inquiry into Taxation, Zimbabwe (1984-86). He worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (1982-84), for the House of Commons Select Committee on the Treasury (1980-82), and at the Department of the Environment (1979-80).Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard University, and was previously Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the American Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, the International Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. His awards include the Bharat Ratna (India), Commandeur de la légion d'honneur (France), the National Humanities Medal (USA), Honorary Companion of Honour (UK), Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (Brazil), and the Nobel Prize in Economics.