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Building Decent Societies

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Table of Contents

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Social Security and Human Rights
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    Chapter 3 Social Protection and Nation-Building: an Essay on Why and How Universalist Social Policy Contributes to Stable Nation-States
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    Chapter 4 Social Security, Social Impact and Economic Performance: a Farewell to Three Famous Myths
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    Chapter 5 Can Low-Income Countries Afford Social Security?
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    Chapter 6 The Impact of Social Transfers on Growth, Development, Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries
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    Chapter 7 Investment in Social Security: a Possible UN Model for Child Benefit?
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    Chapter 8 Three Models of Social Security in the History of the Industrialized Countries
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    Chapter 9 Social Protection, the European Union and its Member States
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    Chapter 10 Can the European Welfare Model be Exported?
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    Chapter 11 The Poverty Effects of Social Protection in Europe: EU Enlargement and its Lessons for Developing Countries
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    Chapter 12 Social Security in Developing Countries: a Brief Overview
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    Chapter 13 Introducing Basic Social Protection in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Existing Programmes
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    Chapter 14 Social Protection, Rural Livelihoods and Economic Growth: the Case of Cash Transfers in Malawi, Ethiopia and Bangladesh
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    Chapter 15 Welfare, Development and Growth: Lessons from South Africa
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    Chapter 16 From Targeting to Universality: Lessons from the Health System in Thailand
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    Chapter 17 Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development
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Title
Building Decent Societies
Published by
Springer, August 2009
DOI 10.1057/9780230251052
ISBNs
978-0-230-25105-2, 978-0-230-23525-0, 978-1-349-31380-8, 978-1-137-14835-3
Editors

Townsend, P.

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 54 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Portugal 1 2%
Unknown 52 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 15%
Student > Master 8 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 6%
Student > Postgraduate 3 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 10 19%
Unknown 19 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 31%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 21 39%

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