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Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as landlords, moneylenders and patrons. This book seeks to develop a conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regime in a range of countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and makes an important contribution to the literature by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America.

Insecurity and welfare regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America

Introduction Esping-Andersen (1990; 1999) has developed a typology of welfare regimes for developed countries. His analysis focuses on the production of welfare, understood as the articulation of welfare programmes and institutions – including the state, markets and households – insuring households against social risks. In his later book he notes that understanding welfare regimes, and their change over time, involves ‘(a) a diagnosis of the changing distribution and intensity of social risks, and (b) a comprehensive examination of how risks are pooled between state, market, and family’ (Esping-Andersen 1999: 33). This chapter undertakes this task for Latin America. The welfare regime approach can provide a much-needed framework enabling a comprehensive analysis of changes in welfare production in Latin America, including the study of the linkages existing between social protection and labour market institutions, and an evaluation of the outcomes of these changes. There is important research on specific programmes or institutions, but few have attempted to compare and integrate their findings. Extending this framework beyond its original focus on industrialised nations can provide a valuable new dimension, and the chapter will consider whether the fundamental change in economic and social institutions undergone by most countries in Latin America provides a rare example of a welfare regime shift. The chapter is organised as follows. The next section identifies welfare systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. The following section considers the welfare mix prior to recent social protection and labour market reform and identifies a welfare regime for Latin America.

Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America: Latin America : towards a liberal-informal welfare regime

Part 1 Introduction: the uncertain promise of southern Africa, York Bradshaw, Stephen N. Ndegwa balance of power in southern Africa, Colin Legum. Part 2 Countries: South Africa - transition to majority rule, transformation to stable democracy, Kenneth W. Grundy Zimbabwe - the erosion of authoritarianism and prospects for democracy, Masipula Sithole democracy and development in post-independence Namibia, Joshua Bernard Forrest democratising the administrative state in Botswana, John D. Holm, Staffan Darnoff militarism, warfare and the search for peace in Angola, Horace G. Campbell celebration and confrontation, resolution and restructuring - Mozambique from independence to the Millennium, M. Anne Pitcher. Part 3 Themes: popular culture in southern Africa, David B. Coplan gendered terrains - negotiating land and development, whose reality counts? Jean Davidson law and gender in southern Africa, Chuma Himonga education in southern Africa - the paradox of progress, Bruce Fuller, Allen Caldwell health and society in southern Africa in times of economic turbulence, Ezekiel Kalipeni business in southern Africa, Tony Dyer, Sue Kell compendium of data for the quantitative analysis of southern Africa, Leizell Bradshaw.

The uncertain promise of Southern Africa

conceptual frameworks that would afford a fuller insight into the dynamic processes unfolding on the continent." Others, such as Hyden (1983, 193), argue directly that "Africa needs a new paradigm, or set of paradigms" to explain the continent's development processes. Although there often is a call to combine or integrate various paradigms, it seldom is accompanied by specific suggestions or guidelines about how to create a new theoretical approach for the study of Africa. Moreover, theoretical discussions are not normally accompanied by a call to use appropriate and innovative methodological strategies. Failure to utilize such strategies severely limits theoretical advancement, however. We introduce a relatively new strategy in social-science methodology that is ideally suited for advancing new theoretical approaches for the study of Africa. Before introducing this strategy, we argue that current theoretical approaches to the continent are plagued by a fundamental problem. Specifically, most previous research has failed to examine how events are shaped by the interaction between phenomena at the global, national and local levels. The majority of studies focus on one or perhaps two levels, ignoring the fact that development processes are complex and depend on interaction between factors at different levels. This situation is further complicated by the fact that each level of analysis also contains a number of different categories or sub-levels. Thus, theoretical studies should examine 1) the interaction between the global, national, and local levels, and 2) the interaction among factors within each level. Attention to phenomena between and within different levels creates a framework from which to develop more realistic theoretical approaches.

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Rethinking Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of African Development

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The uncertain promise of Southern Africa

Rethinking Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of African Development

South African Matrix (Part 2)@@@The Uncertain Promise of Southern Africa@@@Discordant Comrades: Identities and Loyalties of the South African Left@@@The UDF: A History of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983-1991@@@Opposition and Democracy in South Africa