Building Decent Societies : Rethinking the Role of Social Security in State Building

Cover -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: The Right to Social Security and National Development -- 2 Social Security and Human Rights -- Part II: Issues for the Global Society of the Twenty-first Century -- 3 Social Protection and Nation-Building: an Essay on Why and How Universalist Social Policy Contributes to Stable Nation-States -- 4 Social Security, Social Impact and Economic Performance: a Farewell to Three Famous Myths -- 5 Can Low-Income Countries Afford Social Security? -- 6 The Impact of Social Transfers on Growth, Development, Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries -- 7 Investment in Social Security: a Possible UN Model for Child Benefit? -- Part III: Social Protection in Europe and the OECD -- 8 Three Models of Social Security in the History of the Industrialized Countries -- 9 Social Protection, the European Union and its Member States -- 10 Can the European Welfare Model be Exported? -- 11 The Poverty Effects of Social Protection in Europe: EU Enlargement and its Lessons for Developing Countries -- Part IV: Experiences from Low-Income Countries -- 12 Social Security in Developing Countries: a Brief Overview -- 13 Introducing Basic Social Protection in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Existing Programmes -- 14 Social Protection, Rural Livelihoods and Economic Growth: the Case of Cash Transfers in Malawi, Ethiopia and Bangladesh -- 15 Welfare, Development and Growth: Lessons from South Africa -- 16 From Targeting to Universality: Lessons from the Health System in Thailand -- Part V: Conclusions -- 17 Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.