Ian Gough is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath and Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy. Professor Geof Wood is Head of the Department of Economics and International Development and Director of the Institute for International Policy Analysis at the University of Bath. Armando Barrientos is Lecturer in Public Economics and Development at the Institute for Development and Management at the University of Manchester. Philippa Bevan is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology of Development at the University of Bath. Peter Davis is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath. Graham Room is Professor of European Social Policy at the University of Bath.

• Introduction Ian Gough and Geof Wood; Part I. Understanding Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in the South: An Analytical Framework: 1. Adapting welfare regimes to development contexts Ian Gough; 2. Informal security regimes: embedding social policy in the search for a secure institutional landscape Geof Wood; 3. Conceptualising in/security regimes Philippa Bevan; Part II. Regional Regimes: 4. Latin America: towards a liberal-informal welfare regime Armando Barrientos; 5. East Asia: the limits of productivist regimes Ian Gough; 6. The dynamics of Africa's in/security regimes Philippa Bevan; Part III. Regimes in Global Context: 7. Rethinking the welfare regime approach in the context of Bangladesh Peter Davis; 8. Multi-tiered international welfare systems Graham Room; Conclusion Geof Wood and Ian Gough.

Review of the hardback: 'This is the book that social policy scholars have been awaiting a very long time. Thanks to Ian Gough, Geof Wood and their collaborators, we now have a rigorous, comprehensive, and extraordinarily nuanced and subtle analysis of social protection systems in the Third World. The scholarly challenge is truly formidable, and they have met it with courage and aplomb. Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America is one of those rare books that no welfare state scholar or practicioner can ignore.' Gosta Esping-Andersen