The Foreign Gaze – Essay on Global Health
The field of research known as academic global health is in the midst of a scientific debate that is questioning its epistemological foundations. This book contributes to that questioning. Through … Continue reading →
Conceptualising the Relationship Between Formal and Informal Social Protection
To date, practical and scholarly work on the interaction between formal and informal social protection has focused on crowding in and crowding out of informal social protection by formal social … Continue reading →
Social Protection in Latin America: Causality, Stratification and Outcomes
This book provides an account of social protection institutions in LatinAmerica. It aims to develop a systematic understanding of the contribution of social protection institutions to shaping economic and social … Continue reading →
Informality and pension reforms in Bolivia
How social protection programmes affect work choices is a question that has been at the centre of labour economics research for decades. More recently, a scant literature has focused on … Continue reading →
Social protection and inequality in the global South: Politics, actors and institutions
It explores the links between contemporary social protection approaches and inequality in developing countries, focusing on political economy drivers and the role of actors and institutions in recent reform and … Continue reading →
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
This book confronts the vulnerabilities that have been revealed by the pandemic and its consequences. It examines vulnerabilities for people who have been harmed or will be harmed by the … Continue reading →
Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
This special issue presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration. It partly reflects the complex demographic and … Continue reading →
Change without Transformation: Social Policy Reforms in the Philippines under Duterte
By showing how political economy and historico‐institutional conditions foreclose the transformative possibilities of the social policy changes effected by Duterte, the author offers a critique of current tendencies in global … Continue reading →
The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
[Open access] Challenges the common conception that [the spread of social protection] has been entirely driven by international development agencies, instead focusing on the critical role of political dynamics within … Continue reading →
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