Social assistance in developing countries / Armando Barrientos, BWPI, University of Manchester.
"The rapid spread of large-scale and innovative social transfers in the developing world has made a key contribution to the significant reduction in global poverty over the last decade. Explaining how flagship anti-poverty programmes emerged, this book provides the first comprehensive account o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Summary: | "The rapid spread of large-scale and innovative social transfers in the developing world has made a key contribution to the significant reduction in global poverty over the last decade. Explaining how flagship anti-poverty programmes emerged, this book provides the first comprehensive account of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries. Armando Barrientos begins by focusing on the ethical and conceptual foundations of social assistance, and he discusses the justifications for assisting those in poverty. He provides a primer on poverty analysis, and introduces readers to the theory of optimal transfers. He then shifts the focus to practice, and introduces a classification of social assistance programmes to help readers understand the diversity in approaches and design in developing countries. The book concludes with an analysis of the financing and politics of the emerging institutions and of their potential to address global poverty."--Page i |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781107417120 1107417120 9781139856058 1139856057 1299842186 9781299842182 9781107419698 1107419697 9781107420861 1107420865 1139892908 9781139892902 1107424852 9781107424852 1107422817 9781107422810 1107562600 9781107562608 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |