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100	1		_aTownsend, P.
245	1	0	_aBuilding Decent Societies : _bRethinking the Role of Social Security in Development.
264		1	_aLondon : _bPalgrave Macmillan UK, _c2009.
264		4	_c�2009.
300			_a1 online resource (401 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aCover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aTownsend, P. _tBuilding Decent Societies : Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development _dLondon : Palgrave Macmillan UK,c2009 _z9780230235250
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
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