Social security in developing countries

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The notion of social security is very different in under-developed countries and is best understood as poverty alleviation. This study attempts to define social security in the Third World and to examine what programmes are most suitable for these countries.

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Full title :Social security in developing countries / edited by Ehtisham Ahmad [and others].

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1991.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:1991.

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 477 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0198233000, 9780198233008
oclc:ocm21600558
LC Classification:HD7252
Dewey Decimal:368.4/009172/4

Public action for social security: foundations and strategy / Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen -- Social security in developing countries: what, why, who and how? / Robin Burgess and Nicholas Stern -- Social security in developed countries: are there lessons for developing countries / A.B. Atkinson and John Hills -- Traditional systems of social security and hunger insurance: past achievements and modern challenges / Jean-Philippe Platteau -- Social security and the family: coping with seasonality and calamity in rural India / Bina Agarwal -- Social security in China: a historical perspective / Ehtisham Ahmad and Athar Hussain -- Social security in South Asia / S.R. Osmani -- Social security in Latin America and the Caribbean: a comparative assessment / Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Social security in Sub-Saharan Africa: reflections on policy challenges / Joachim von Braun -- Social security in the SADCC states of Southern Africa: social welfare programmes and the reduction of household vulnerability / Richard Morgan.

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Aufsatzsammlung developing countries ENTWICKLUNGSLÄNDER Kongress Kongress -- 1988. -- London ontwikkelingslanden SOCIAL SECURITY Social security -- Developing countries Soziale Sicherheit