Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America : Social ...

Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin AmericaSocial Policy in Development Contexts\nAuthor(s): Ian Gough, Geof Wood, Armando Barrientos, Philippa Bevan, Peter Davis, Graham Room\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521834193, 978-0521834193\nSynopsis\nWritten by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as landlords, moneylenders and pa.