Financing Social Policy

Foreword; T.Mkandawire Preface and Acknowledgements; K.Hujo & S.McClanahan List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes on the Contributors Introduction and Overview; K.Hujo & S.McClanahan PART I: GLOBAL DIMENSION: PARADIGMS AND RESOURCES Social Exclusion Policies and Labour Markets in Latin America; R.Lo Vuolo Financing for Development: International Redistribution; I.Ortiz PART II: TAXATION AND AID How Can Financing of Social Services be Pro-Poor?; E.Delamonica & S.Mehrotra Financing Developmental Social Policies in Low-Income Countries: Conditions and Constraints; A.Sindzingre Aid and the Financing of Public Social Sector Spending; O.Morrissey PART III: MINERAL RENTS Natural Resource Wealth, Development and Social Policy: Evidence and Issues; A.Rosser Mineral Rents and Social Policy: The Case of the Norwegian Government Oil Fund; E.Holmøy PART IV: SOCIAL INSURANCE AND PENSION FUNDS Social Insurance (Pensions and Health), Labour Markets and Coverage in Latin America; C.Mesa-Lago Pensions and Pension Funds in the Making of a Nation-State and a National Economy: The Case of Finland; O.Kangas Provident and Pension Funds and Economic Development in Selected Asian Countries; M.G.Asher PART V: REMITTANCES Remittances and Social Development; H.de Haas Remittances and Social Development: The Latin American Experience; M.Orozco Conclusions; K.Hujo & S.McClanahan

MUKUL G. ASHER Professor of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, SingaporeHEIN DE HAAS Research Officer, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UKENRIQUE DELAMONICA Saint Peter's College, New Jersey, USAERLING HOLMØY Research Department, Statistics Norway, NorwayOLLI KANGAS Research Professor, Social Insurance Institution of Finland, FinlandRUBÉN M. LO VUOLO Principal Researcher, Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas (Ciepp), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaSANTOSH MEHROTRA Head, Rural Development Division, Planning Commission, Government of India, IndiaCARMELO MESA-LAGO Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, USAOLIVER MORRISSEY Professor of Development Economics and Director of CREDIT, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, UKMANUEL OROZCO Director, Remittances and Development, Inter-American DialogueISABEL ORTIZ Senior Interregional Advisor, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, USAANDREW ROSSER Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, University of Adelaide, AustraliaALICE SINDZINGRE Research Fellow, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris), France; University Paris-X (EconomiX), France; Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK; Associate Researcher, Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire (CEAN, CNRS, Bordeaux), France