Financing Social Policy - (Social Policy in a Development Context) by Katja Hujo & Shea McClanahan (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Moving beyond the 'post-Washington consensus', this book shifts the focus of development policy debates away from expenditures and austerity and towards revenues and resources. The book explores the potential and the developmental impact of different categories of resources for financing social policy in a development context.

About the Author

MUKUL G. ASHER Professor of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore HEIN DE HAAS Research Officer, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK ENRIQUE DELAMONICA Saint Peter's College, New Jersey, USA ERLING HOLMØY Research Department, Statistics Norway, Norway OLLI KANGAS Research Professor, Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Finland RUBÉN M. LO VUOLO Principal Researcher, Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas (Ciepp), Buenos Aires, Argentina SANTOSH MEHROTRA Head, Rural Development Division, Planning Commission, Government of India, India CARMELO MESA-LAGO Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, USA OLIVER MORRISSEY Professor of Development Economics and Director of CREDIT, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, UK MANUEL OROZCO Director, Remittances and Development, Inter-American Dialogue ISABEL ORTIZ Senior Interregional Advisor, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, USA ANDREW ROSSER Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia ALICE SINDZINGRE Research Fellow, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris), France; University Paris-X (EconomiX), France; Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK; Associate Researcher, Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire (CEAN, CNRS, Bordeaux), France