Social Security in Developing Countries

Preface; List of contributors; PART I: General Issues: Jean Dréze & Amartya Sen: Public action for Social Security: Foundations and strategy; Robin Burgess & Nicholas Stern: Social Security in developing countries: What, why, who and how?; A. B. Atkinson & John Hills: Social Security in developed countries: Are there lessons for developing countries?; Jean-Philippe Platteau: Traditional systems of Social Security and hunger insurance: Past achievements and modern challenges; Bina Agarwal: Social Security and the family: Coping with seasonality and calamity in rural India; PART II: Case Studies: Ehtisham Ahmad & Athar Hussain: Social Security in China: A historical perspective; S. R. Osmani: Social Security in South Asia; Carmelo Mesa-Lago: Social Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: A comparative assessment; Joachim von Braun: Social Security in sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections on policy challenges; Richard Morgan: Social Security in the SADCC States of Southern Africa: Social welfare programmes and the reduction of household vulnerability