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Insecurity and welfare regimes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America : social policy in development contexts by Ian Gough, Geof Wood, Armando Barrientos, Philippa Bevan, Davis, Peter, Peter Davis, Graham Room is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
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Written 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
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ian Gough, Geof Wood, Armando Barrientos, Philippa Bevan, Davis, Peter, Peter Davis, Graham Room
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521834193
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Social Science, Political Science, Social_sciences
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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