Social Policy in a Developing World

Edited by Rebecca Surender, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK and Robert Walker, Beijing Normal University, China and University of Oxford, UK

• Contents:PART I: CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS1. Introduction Rebecca Surender2. The Role of Historical Contexts in Shaping Social Policy in the Global SouthRebecca Surender PART II: INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS3. The Role of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Poverty Reduction: Limits of Policy Change Antje Vetterlein 4. Building the Welfare Mix or Sidelining the State? Non-Governmental Organizations in Developing Countries as Social Policy Actors David Lewis 5. The Informal Economy: Dilemmas and Policy Responses Sony Pellissery6. Addressing the Failings of Public Health Systems: Should the Private Sector be an Instrument of Choice? Jane Doherty and Diane McIntyre PART III: INSTRUMENTS AND MECHANISMS7. Social Security: Risks, Needs and Protection Robert Walker 8. The Implications of Conditionality in Social Assistance Programmes Paul Dornan and Catherine Porter 9. Work and Welfare in the Global South: Public Works Programmes as an Instrument of Social Policy Anna McCord and Charles Meth 10. The Social Entrepreneurship–Social Policy Nexus in Developing Countries Alex NichollsPART IV: SCENARIOS AND TRAJECTORIES11. Globalization and Social Policy in Developing Countries Bob Deacon 12. South–South Cooperation: A New Paradigm for Global Social Policy?Rebecca Surender and Marian Urbina-Ferretjans13. Conclusion: Towards the Analysis of Social Policy in a Developing WorldRobert WalkerIndex

‘This volume makes a valuable contribution to the dynamic and expanding field of scholarship on social policy in developing countries. In combining analytical frameworks used in comparative social policy analysis with an examination of key areas of policy and provision in selected countries, it will be a key resource for anyone interested in current debates in international social policy and welfare.’