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Building Decent Societies

Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Peter Townsend

    1. London School of Economics, UK

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. 1 Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Peter Townsend
      Pages 1-25

  3. The Right to Social Security and National Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Social Security and Human Rights

      • Peter Townsend
      Pages 29-59

  6. Experiences from Low-Income Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Social Security in Developing Countries: a Brief Overview

      • Peter Townsend
      Pages 245-252

    3. Introducing Basic Social Protection in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Existing Programmes

      • Armando Barrientos
      Pages 253-273

    4. Social Protection, Rural Livelihoods and Economic Growth: the Case of Cash Transfers in Malawi, Ethiopia and Bangladesh

      • Rachel Slater, John Farrington, Rebecca Holmes, Paul Harvey
      Pages 274-289

    5. Welfare, Development and Growth: Lessons from South Africa

      • Francie Lund
      Pages 290-309
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This book builds the case for a comprehensive social security system to be developed in all countries – to eliminate desperate conditions of poverty, reverse growing inequality and sustain economic growth. It gives the history of the rich countries in meeting poverty and shows how the strategies in the poor countries can be greatly improved.

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  • London School of Economics, UK

    Peter Townsend

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PETER TOWNSEND was Professor of International Social Policy, LSE, and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, Bristol University. Over the course of a long career his research interests included international social policy, the sociology of poverty, inequalities in health, and ageing, disability and the family. His most recent publications include The Right to Social Security and National Development: Lessons from OECD Experience for Low-Income Countries (2007), Child Poverty in the Developing World (co-authored with David Gordon and others, 2003) and World Poverty: New Policies to Defeat an Old Enemy (co-editor, 2002). A tireless activist and campaigner, he was cofounder and president of the Disability Alliance, and a founding member and president of the Child Poverty Action Group up until his death in June 2009.

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