pt. 1. Objectives and political economy of social protection reforms -- pt. 2. The legal framework of social protection reforms -- pt. 3. Political feasibility of basic social protection -- pt. 4. Social protection systems : between fragmentation and integration -- pt. 5. Social protection...

Arab oil exporting countries have been advised by the IMF to diversify their economies away from oil and that the way to do that is to adopt the ten principles of the Washington Consensus, which call for liberalization, deregulation and privatization. It is not clear how measures like these are...