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Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South : Challenges and Innovations in Emerging Economies
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Drawing on international case studies from emerging economies and developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Indonesia, China and Russia, this book examine...
Drawing on international case studies from emerging economies and developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Indonesia, China and Russia, this book examines the rise, nature and effectiveness of recent developments in social policy in the Global South.
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- edited by Ilcheong Yi, Alexandra Kaasch, and Kelly Stetter
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- English
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- First edition
- Bristol, England : Policy Press, [2024]
- ©2024
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- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781447367925, 1447367928, 1447367901
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Front Cover -- Series page -- Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South: Challenges and Innovations in Emerging Economies -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: New Social Policy Trends and Innovations -- Diverse Understandings of Social Policy -- Evolution of Social Policy in the Global South -- Social policy after independence -- Social policy reforms during structural adjustment -- A Broad Concept of Social Policy -- Novelty and Innovations in Social Policy -- What Makes Social Policy Transformative? -- New Directions in Social Policy in the Context of the 2030 Agenda -- References -- 1 The Globalizing Dynamics of Social Policy: A Transnational Analytics of and for Southern Social Policy -- Introduction -- Analytical Perspectives -- Transnational Social Policy -- Conditional Cash Transfers -- World-Regional Social Policy -- Conclusions and Future Lines for Research -- References -- 2 Institutional-Evolutionary Analysis and Industry-Based Methods in Social Policy -- Introduction: New Approaches to Social Policy Analysis -- Industry-Based Institutional-Evolutionary Analysis -- Moving Beyond Classical Political Economy -- Industry Analysis: Variety and Co-evolution at Micro-Levels -- Toward Industry Methods in Evolutionary Political Economy -- The Health Industry in Late Industrial Economies -- Conclusion: Policy Considerations -- References -- 3 Incorporating Informal Workers in Twenty-First-Century Social Contracts -- Introduction -- Shifting Our Gaze on Social Change -- Defining "Informal Work" -- Operationalizing the Definition -- Informal Workers and Neoliberalism -- Informal Workers' Organizations in India -- Informal Workers' Organizations Globally -- Informal workers are redefining the category of "workers"
- Informal workers are expanding the definition of work -- Informal workers are organizing through a variety of institutions -- Informal workers are formulating bridges with formal labour and other social movements -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Universal Welfare Design in a New Age: Equality versus Equity in the Debate about Universal Basic Income Policies and Health in Society -- Introduction -- Freedom-Orientated Perspectives and the Development Debate -- Conceptual challenges in welfare debate -- New normative approaches in welfare analysis -- Humanist Governance -- Humanist Governance and Distributive Debates: Equity, Equality, or Both? -- Universalism Revisited-Cooperative Public Finance and the Human Development State -- The Distributive versus Institutional Case for BI Revisited -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 5 The South African Mining Sector: Exploring the Dynamics of the Social, Economic and Environmental Policy Nexus -- Introduction -- The Mining Sector in South Africa -- Social, Economic, and Environmental Linkages in Policy and Legislative Documents -- Public policy documents -- Mining legislation in the democratic era -- Policy Actors in the Mining Sector in Relation to Social, Economic, and Environmental Policy Linkages -- The state -- The private sector -- Labour -- Civil Society: Balancing Legitimacy and Sustainability -- Social Policy and Policy Complementarity: Analysis and Conclusions -- Multilateral platforms -- Retention of sectoral expertise within state structures -- Legislation and the courts -- References -- 6 The Rights-Based Approach to Social Policy in India: Innovations, Advances and Setbacks -- Introduction -- The Formulation of India's Rights-Based Social Policies -- The Implementation of India's Rights-Based Social Policies, 2005-2014 -- RTI -- MGNREGA -- RTE
- The Decline of India's Rights-Based Social Policies, 2014-2019 -- RTI -- MGNREGA -- NFSA -- RTE -- LARRA -- The Performance of India's Welfare Regime During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Incorporating Informal Workers into Social Insurance in Tanzania -- Introduction -- Emergence of Social Insurance for Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Social Protection in Tanzania -- Social insurance for the formal sector -- Development of social assistance for informal workers -- Emergence of organized informal social security systems -- Incorporating Informal Workers into Social Insurance in Tanzania -- Innovative reforms to social protection law -- The beginnings of social insurance for informal workers: the Voluntary Savings Retirement Scheme (VSRS, 2009-2018) -- Expanding social insurance: the NSSF sector-specific schemes (2014-present) -- A new attempt to achieve broad-based informal sector insurance: the National Informal Sector Scheme (2021 onwards) -- Discussion: Successes and Limitations of Social Insurance Expansion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 8 Economic Growth, Youth Unemployment and Political and Social Instability: A Study of Policies and Outcomes in Post-Arab Spring Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- IFIs and their policy influence -- Analysis of IMF Article IV reports -- Inclusive growth and skills mismatch -- Skills mismatch -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9 Global Development Actors and Country Ownership in Indonesian Social Policy Making -- Introduction -- Social Policy Development in Indonesia (1950s-2010s) -- Health System Development -- The Role of International Actors in the Development of Indonesia's Health System -- International organizations in Indonesia -- The World Health Organization -- The World Bank
- The International Labour Organization -- The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -- Bilateral relationships with Indonesia -- Japan -- The United States -- Australia -- Germany -- Analysing Development Relationships -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 10 New Actors and New Systems in Aged Care Services in China -- Introduction -- Background: An Aged Care Service System in Transition -- Combining family care and state support (the 1950s-1990s) -- Old-age care service network as a response to state enterprise reform (the 1990s-2000s) -- Combining the government, family and market in the caring system (2000-2010) -- SOs as service providers in the community 2015-now -- Research Design and Data Collection -- Perceptions and Responses to Service System Transitions -- Understanding the goals and roles of stakeholders -- Trust -- Coordination -- Local variations in the system transition -- Shanghai, Hangzhou and Chengdu -- Guizhou, Xiamen and Taicang -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 11 NGOs in the Context of the Reform of Social Services in Russia -- Introduction -- The Statist Social Sector and Emergence of NGOs in Russia -- The emergence of NGOs -- Major Social Policy Shifts in the Russian Federation -- Outsourcing delivery of social services -- Reforming disability policy -- Agents of change and resistance -- Reforms of child welfare: family services and foster care -- Agents of change -- Evaluating Outcomes -- Outsourcing -- Barriers to entry into regional registries -- Financing and compensation -- Difficulties finding clients -- Disability reforms: outcomes -- Transforming child welfare -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Conclusion: Toward New Social Policies for Transformation -- Rights-Based Approach to Social Welfare
- Integration of Social Policy into Other Public Policies -- Civil Society Organizations in Transition Economies -- Emergence of Supranational-level Social Policy -- Informal Workers Shaping the System of Social Policy Programmes -- National Ownership of Social Policy in the Context of Development Cooperation -- Toward New Agendas for Social Policy Research -- Index