Financing Social Policy: Mobilizing Resources for Social Development (Social Policy in a Development Context)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 13
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 15
Notes on the Contributors......Page 19
1 Introduction and Overview......Page 22
Part I: Global Dimension: Paradigms and Resources......Page 46
2 Social Exclusion Policies and Labour Markets in Latin America......Page 48
3 Financing for Development: International Redistribution......Page 74
Part II: Taxation and Aid......Page 108
4 How Can the Financing of Social Services be Made Pro-Poor?......Page 110
5 Financing Developmental Social Policies in Low-Income Countries: Conditions and Constraints......Page 136
6 Aid and the Financing of Public Social Sector Spending......Page 162
Part III: Mineral Rents......Page 184
7 Natural Resource Wealth, Development and Social Policy: Evidence and Issues......Page 186
8 Mineral Rents and Social Policy: The Case of the Norwegian Government Oil Fund......Page 204
Part IV: Social Insurance and Pension Funds......Page 234
9 Social Insurance (Pensions and Health), Labour Markets and Coverage in Latin America......Page 236
10 Pensions and Pension Funds in the Making of a Nation-State and a National Economy: The Case of Finland......Page 267
11 Provident and Pension Funds and Economic Development in Selected Asian Countries......Page 285
Part V: Remittances......Page 312
12 Remittances and Social Development......Page 314
13 Remittances and Social Development: The Latin American Experience......Page 340
14 Conclusions......Page 374
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