Financing Social Policy : Mobilizing Resources for Social Development

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.

Foreword; T.Mkandawire Preface and Acknowledgements; K.Hujo & S.McClanahan List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes on the Contributors Introduction and Overview; K.Hujo & S.McClanahan PART I: GLOBAL DIMENSION: PARADIGMS AND RESOURCES Social Exclusion Policies and Labour Markets in Latin America; R.Lo Vuolo Financing for Development: International Redistribution; I.Ortiz PART II: TAXATION AND AID How Can Financing of Social Services be Pro-Poor?; E.Delamonica & S.Mehrotra Financing Developmental Social Policies in Low-Income Countries: Conditions and Constraints; A.Sindzingre Aid and the Financing of Public Social Sector Spending; O.Morrissey PART III: MINERAL RENTS Natural Resource Wealth, Development and Social Policy: Evidence and Issues; A.Rosser Mineral Rents and Social Policy: The Case of the Norwegian Government Oil Fund; E.Holmøy PART IV: SOCIAL INSURANCE AND PENSION FUNDS Social Insurance (Pensions and Health), Labour Markets and Coverage in Latin America; C.Mesa-Lago Pensions and Pension Funds in the Making of a Nation-State and a National Economy: The Case of Finland; O.Kangas Provident and Pension Funds and Economic Development in Selected Asian Countries; M.G.Asher PART V: REMITTANCES Remittances and Social Development; H.de Haas Remittances and Social Development: The Latin American Experience; M.Orozco Conclusions; K.Hujo & S.McClanahan