Preface -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Adapting labor and social protection systems to twenty-first-century capitalism / Sandra Polaski -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century : latest trends in social protection / Isabel Ortiz -- Supporting...

Preface -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Adapting labor and social protection systems to twenty-first-century capitalism / Sandra Polaski -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century : latest trends in social protection / Isabel Ortiz -- Supporting...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Martin Guzman, Jose Antonio Ocampo, and Joseph E. Stiglitz -- General issues of sovereign debt restructuring -- Fixing sovereign debt restructuring / Martin Guzman and Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Sovereign debt of developing countries : overview of trends and policy...

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