Social Protection in Developing Countries

Abstract

Introduction Katja Bender, Markus Kaltenborn and Christian Pfleiderer Part 1: Social Protection Reforms: Objectives and Political Economy of Social Protection Reforms 1. Rescuing Social Protection from the Poverty Trap: New Programmes and Historical Lessons Sarah Cook 2. Social Protection for Poverty Reduction: Approaches, Effectiveness and Challenges Armando Barrientos 3. The Political Economy of Social Protection Reforms - What to Explain and How? Katja Bender 4. Social Cohesion: Does it matter for Growth and Development? Johannes Jutting and Annalisa Prizzon Part 2: The Legal Framework of Social Protection Reforms 5. The Human Rights-Based Approach to Social Protection Markus Kaltenborn 6. The Role of Law and Legal Institutions in the Reform of Social Protection Systems: Experiences from South Africa Ockert Dupper 7. The Role of the Law of Regional Organisations in Reforms of Social Protection Systems: Portability of Social Security Benefits in the East African Community Tulia Ackson 8. Reforms of Social Protection Systems in Latin America-The Legal Context Lorena Ossio Bustillos Part 3: Political Feasibility of Basic Social Protection 9. Attitudes towards Hard Work and Redistributive Preferences in Developing Countries Anil Duman 10. Populous, Precarious - Protected? The Paradox of Social Security for South Asian Agricultural Workers Karin Astrid Siegmann 11. Whom to Target - An Obvious Choice? Esther Schuring and Franziska Gassmann 12. How to target - Overview on current targeting methods in social protection Christian Pfleiderer Part 4: Social Protection Systems - Between Fragmentation and Integration 13. Building Social Protection and Labour Systems David A. Robalino, Laura Rawlings and Ian Walker 14. The Political Economy of Social Protection Reforms in Indonesia Bambang Widianto 15. Social Protection Reforms in Vietnam: Experiences and Challenges Nguyen Thi Lan Huong and Matthias Meissner 16. Social Protection: Political Reform and Policy Innovations in South Asia Gabriele Koehler 17. Caring for the Urban Middle Class: The Political Economy of Social Protection in Arab Countries Markus Loewe Part 5: Social Protection Reforms - International Contexts 18. Building National Social Protection Floors and Social Security Systems: The ILO's Two-Dimensional Social Security Strategy Christina Behrendt 19. Developing Countries' Social Protection Measures in Reaction to the Global Economic and Financial Crisis Yanchun Zhang and Nina Thelen 20. Social Protection and the Four Horsemen of the Donor Apocalypse Nicholas Freeland