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Social Policy in a Development Context

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Pensions and Pension Funds in the Making of a Nation-State and a National Economy: The Case of Finland
Olli E. Kangas
The Role of Social Policy in Economic Development: Some Theoretical Reflections and Lessons from East Asia
Ha-joon Chang
Macroeconomic Policy, Inequality and Poverty Reduction in Fast-Growing India and China
C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
The Search for Cross Subsidy in Segmented Health Systems: Can Private Wards in Public Hospitals Secure Equity Gains?
Haroon Wadee and Lucy Gilson
Pension Reform in Bolivia: Two Models of Income Security in Old Age
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock and Kepa Artaraz
Challenges of Implementing Universal Health Care in Thailand
Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Waranya Teokul and Lalita Chanwongpaisarn
Has Botswana Beaten the Resource Curse?
Scott Pegg
Health Sector Reform in China: Gender Equality and Social Justice
Jufen Wang
Change and Continuity in Social Policy Responses to Economic Crises in South Korea: 1979–81 versus 1997–98
Jae-jin Yang
The Economic Crisis and the Politics of Welfare Reform in Korea
Huck-ju Kwon
Provident and Pension Funds and Economic Development in Selected Asian Countries
Mukul G. Asher
The Nordic Model of the Information Society: The Finnish Case
Pekka Himanen
Public Expenditure Allocation and Incidence under Health Care Market Liberalization: a Tanzanian Case Study
Tausi Mbaga Kida and Maureen Mackintosh
Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development in Bolivia (1985–2014): Protests, Hydrocarbons and a New State Project
Verónica Paz Arauco
Constraints on Universal Health Care in the Russian Federation: Inequality, Informality and the Failures of Mandatory Health Insurance Reforms
Linda J. Cook
Effective but Uneven: Korean Development from a Gender Perspective
Jinock Lee
Towards More Inclusive Protection: A Comparative Analysis of the Political Process and Socio-Economic Impact of Pension Re-Reforms in Argentina and Chile
Katja Hujo and Mariana Rulli
Secondary Education in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh: Gender Dimensions of State Policy and Practice
Jyotsna Jha and Ramya Subrahmanian
Does the Most Brilliant Future of the ‘Nordic Model’ Have to be in the Past?
Olli Kangas and Joakim Palme
Heterodox Macroeconomic Policies, Inequality and Poverty in Uzbekistan
Giovanni Andrea Cornia
Social Policies in Cuba within the Context of Development (1902–2002)
Julio A. Díaz Vázquez and Julio Carranza Valdés
Social Policy in Indian Development
Jayati Ghosh
Social Policy in a Mineral-Rich Economy: The Case of Nigeria
Jìmí O. Adésínà
Remittances and Social Development
Hein Haas
The Fragmented Social Protection System in India: Five Key Rights but Two Missing
Santosh Mehrotra, Neha Kumra and Ankita Gandhi
Korean Responses to Environmental Challenges: Origins, Drivers and Impacts of Green Growth on Development
Manohar Pawar and Taewook Huh
Gendered Implications of Tax Reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica and Jamaica
Evelyne Huber
The Political Economy of Domestic Resource Mobilization in Nicaragua: Changing State-Citizen Relations and Social Development
Gloria Carrión
Macroeconomic Policy and Pro-Poor Growth in a Dualistic Economy: The Case of Bolivia
Stephan Klasen
Historical Trajectories of Social Policy in Post-Colonial Africa: The Case of Zambia
Guy Mhone
Reforming Pensions in Developing and Transition Countries: Conclusions
Katja Hujo
Conclusion: Harnessing the Potential of Mineral Rents for Social Development - Options and Constraints
Katja Hujo
Remittances and Social Development: The Latin American Experience
Manuel Orozco
The Drivers of Universal Health Care in South Africa: The Role of Ideas, Actors and Institutions
Rebecca Surender
Expectations versus Realities in Gender-responsive Budget Initiatives
Debbie Budlender
Has Macroeconomic Policy Been Pro-Poor in Brazil?
Jorge Arbache
Social Policy and Social Reform ‘Costa Rican Style’: A Paradigmatic Case of Heterodoxy in the Context of a Peripheral Economy
Manuel Barahona, Ludwig Güendel and Carlos Castro
The Political Economy of Resource Mobilization for Social Development in Uganda
Anne Mette Kjær and Marianne S. Ulriksen
Social Policy in Venezuela: Bucking Neoliberalism or Unsustainable Clientelism?
Julia Buxton
Conclusions
Katja Hujo and Shea McClanahan
The Politics of Resource Bargaining, Social Relations and Institutional Development in Zimbabwe Since Independence
Richard Saunders
Expanding Social Security in Indonesia: The Current Processes and Challenges
Asep Suryahadi, Vita Febriany and Athia Yumna
Developmentalism and Social Change in Chile
María Angélica Illanes and Manuel Riesco
The Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development: Conclusions
Katja Hujo
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