Social security in developing countries

Table of Contents

Part I General Issues
1 Public Action for Social Security: Foundations and Strategy*
Jean Drèze, and Amartya Sen
2 Social Security in Developing Countries: What, Why, Who, and How?
Robin Burgess, and Nicholas Stern
3 Social Security in Developed Countries: Are There Lessons for Developing Countries?*
A. B. Atkinson, and John Hills
4 Traditional Systems of Social Security and Hunger Insurance: Past Achievements and Modern Challenges*
Jean-Philippe Platteau
5 Social Security and the Family: Coping with Seasonality and Calamity in Rural India
Bina Agarwal
PART II Case-Studies
6 Social Security in China: A Historical Perspective*
Ehtisham Ahmad, and Athar Hussain
7 Social Security in South Asia*
S. R. Osmani
8 Social Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comparative Assessment
Carmelo Mesa-Lago
9 Social Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections on Policy Challenges*
Joachim von Braun
10 Social Security in the SADCC States of Southern Africa: Social-Welfare Programmes and the Reduction of Household Vulnerability1
Morgan Richard

The term ‘social security’ has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries and is best understood as poverty alleviation. This book attempts to define social security in the Third World and to examine what sorts of programmes are most suitable for developing countries. It reviews current literature on the subject. Some chapters explore broad themes; others describe social security provisions in various regions in India, China, Latin America, and Southern Africa. Western systems are compared and broad assessments made of the traditional social security systems in Third World village societies. The book aims to put the subject of social security firmly on the agenda of development economic research with a view to stimulate much further research in this area.

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