Table of Contents:
  • Why social policy matters
  • Globalization: all boats rising or growing divides?
  • Demise of the state?
  • International development and social policy
  • Latin America: from corporatism to liberalism
  • The short era of the developmental state in Africa
  • East Asia: social policy's role in economic success
  • South Asian welfarism
  • A normative framework for social policy.