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Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South
This cutting-edge Handbook argues for social protection to be situated in a wider system of social welfare and development programmes for low- and middle-income countries. Focusing on the role of citizens and communities in enhancing human development, it explores how welfare systems are unfolding in diverse contexts across the global South.
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This cutting-edge Handbook argues for social protection to be situated in a wider system of social welfare and development programmes for low- and middle-income countries. Focusing on the role of citizens and communities in enhancing human development, it explores how welfare systems are unfolding in diverse contexts across the global South.
Tracing the evolution and theory of social protection, the Handbook examines the nature, design, scope, goals and linkages of social protection and social development programmes. Case studies examine responses to the COVID-19 pandemic; the entrepreneurial character of modern social protection schemes; cash transfer schemes and the move towards cash-plus policies; and the fluidity between progression and regression of social protection. With global and regional reviews of social protection from in-country experts, the Handbook provides innovative solutions to key challenges.
Bridging theoretical and empirical approaches, the Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South will prove an invaluable resource for academics and graduate students of development, social policy and sociology. Its comprehensive overview of the field will also be useful for policymakers and practitioners working on social welfare and development in the global South.
Tracing the evolution and theory of social protection, the Handbook examines the nature, design, scope, goals and linkages of social protection and social development programmes. Case studies examine responses to the COVID-19 pandemic; the entrepreneurial character of modern social protection schemes; cash transfer schemes and the move towards cash-plus policies; and the fluidity between progression and regression of social protection. With global and regional reviews of social protection from in-country experts, the Handbook provides innovative solutions to key challenges.
Bridging theoretical and empirical approaches, the Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South will prove an invaluable resource for academics and graduate students of development, social policy and sociology. Its comprehensive overview of the field will also be useful for policymakers and practitioners working on social welfare and development in the global South.
Critical Acclaim
‘This volume is an extremely welcome addition to the growing, though still scarce, academic literature on social protection and welfare in low- and middle-income countries. Edited and written by internationally renowned experts, most from the Global South, the analysis is comprehensive in breadth and up to date, including scrutiny of the impact of Covid on social protection responses. Essential reading for all social policy and development students, scholars and practitioners.’
– Rebecca Surender, University of Oxford, UK
‘This Handbook is a very important contribution to further our collective understanding of social protection. Showcasing how countries, including in low-income settings, have prioritized investments and followed differentiated pathways towards the realization of the right to social protection, it reaffirms the importance of context-specific processes, political economy dynamics and innovation. And precisely because of these differentiated pathways, social protection continues to demonstrate its central role for children’s wellbeing, elimination of multidimensional child poverty, enhancing equity, preparedness and social cohesion, and critically, accelerating human development results across the life cycle in times of crises, recovery and peace.’
– Natalia Winder-Rossi, Global Director of Social Policy and Social Protection, UNICEF
– Rebecca Surender, University of Oxford, UK
‘This Handbook is a very important contribution to further our collective understanding of social protection. Showcasing how countries, including in low-income settings, have prioritized investments and followed differentiated pathways towards the realization of the right to social protection, it reaffirms the importance of context-specific processes, political economy dynamics and innovation. And precisely because of these differentiated pathways, social protection continues to demonstrate its central role for children’s wellbeing, elimination of multidimensional child poverty, enhancing equity, preparedness and social cohesion, and critically, accelerating human development results across the life cycle in times of crises, recovery and peace.’
– Natalia Winder-Rossi, Global Director of Social Policy and Social Protection, UNICEF
Contributors
Contributors include: Sirojudin Abbas, David Androff, David Ansong, Diloá Athias, Valentina Barca, Armando Barrientos, Charlotte Bilo, Sarah M. Brooks, Isaac Chinyoka, Gina Chowa, Nuno Cunha, Gift Dafuleya, Suo Deng, Annie Devenish, Stephen Devereux, João Pedro Bregolin Dytz, Maya Hammad, Sudhanshu Handa, Jin Huang, Mayke Huijbregts, Aytakin Huseynli, Marwa Ibrahim, Stephen Kidd, Isaac Koomson, Charles Knox-Vydmanov, Lutz Leisering, Cristian Leyton, James Midgley, Renata Nowak-Garmer, Moses Okumu, Marius Olivier, Tia Palermo, Leila Patel, Sony Pellissery, Kate Philip, Sophie Plagerson, Taly Reininger, Michael Samson, Lucas Sato, Esther Schüring, Holly Seglah, Temilade Sesan, Margaret S. Sherraden, Michael Sherraden, Sajanika Sivanu, Aishwarya Sivaramakrishnan, Rachel Slater, Fabio Veras Soares, Tayllor Spadafora, Fred Ssewamala, Natasha Borges Sugiyama, Sicong “Summer” Sun, Amanuel Tewolde, Jean D. Triegaardt, Marianne S. Ulriksen, Wanga Zembe-Mkabile
