Details

Subject(s)

• Political planning [Browse]
• Public welfare [Browse]

Publisher

• Edward Elgar Publishing [Browse]

Editor

• Schuring, Esther [Browse]
• Loewe, Markus [Browse]

Series

Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare [More in this series]

Summary note

This exciting and innovative Handbook provides readers with a comprehensive and globally relevant overview of the instruments, actors and design features of social protection systems, as well as their application and impacts in practice. It is the first book that centres around system building globally, a theme that has gained political importance yet has received relatively little attention in academia.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Rights and reproductions note

Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Language note

English

Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Boxes
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction to the Handbook on Social Protection Systems
• PART I INSTRUMENTS
• Introduction: Instruments
• 2. Social transfers
• Case study A: Non-contributory social cash transfers in Zambia
• Case study B: Universal basic income grant in theory and practice
• 3. Social insurance
• Case study C: Transforming healthcare financing in Central and Eastern European countries
• Case study D: Challenges of pension funds in Iran
• 4. Labour market policies
• Case study E: Labour market policies in MENA countries
• 5. Social services
• 6. Micro-insurance
• PART II SYSTEM DESIGN
• Introduction: System design
• 7. Financing
• 8. Targeting
• 9. Human rights approaches
• 10. Actors
• 11. Systematic approaches to social protection
• Case study F: The challenges of moving towards universal social protection in Bolivia
• Case study G: Comprehensive social protection reform in South Africa
• PART III POLICY COORDINATION
• Introduction: Policy coordination
• 12. Harmonization of similar instruments
• 13. Coordination of different instruments
• Case study H: Poverty and social transfer coverage in the Kingdom of Eswatini
• 14. Graduation
• 15. Taxation and social protection
• Case study I: Simplified tax regimes and their impact on social insurance in Uruguay
• 16. The humanitarian-development nexus
• Case study J: Emergency cash transfers in Yemen
• Case study K: Palestine's national cash transfer programme: An example of cash transfer programming in a humanitarian setting
• 17. Social budgeting
• PART IV GROUPS IN FOCUS
• Introduction: Groups in focus
• 18. Gender and social protection
• Case study L: Gender analysis of social protection in Iran.
• 19. Disability inclusion and social protection
• 20. Child-sensitive social protection
• 21. The elderly and social protection
• 22. The informal sector and social protection
• Case study M: Extension of the contributory pension scheme to small-scale farmers in Zambia
• 23. Refugees and social protection
• PART V ADMINISTRATION
• Introduction: Administration
• 24. Delivering social transfers
• 25. Delivering social insurance
• 26. Integrated information management
• 27. Portability
• 28. Decentralization
• Case study N: Capacity development for social protection in Zambia
• PART VI POLITICAL ECONOMY
• Introduction: Political economy
• 29. International actors and social protection
• 30. Public preferences
• 31. The political economy of social protection adoption
• Case study O: Political economy of social protection in Kenya
• Case study P: Political economy of the basic income grant in South Africa
• 32. Acceptability of social protection reforms
• PART VII EFFECTS
• Introduction: Effects
• 33. Data and analysis in social protection
• Case study Q: An evidence and gap map of effectiveness studies: social protection interventions in low- and middle-income countries
• 34. Effects of social protection on poverty and inequality
• 35. Effects of social protection on food consumption and nutrition
• 36. Effects of social protection on health
• 37. The effects of social protection on economic development
• 38. Effects of social protection on social inclusion, social cohesion and nation building
• PART VIII MAJOR CHALLENGES AND REFORM OPTIONS
• Introduction: Major challenges and reform options
• 39. Demographic change
• 40. Globalization
• 41. The future of work
• 42. Climate change
• 43. Pandemics and other macro crises
• Case study R: A humanitarian social protection response to COVID-19 in Kenya
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781839109119
• 1839109114

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