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Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Why Focus on Social Protection? -- 1.2 Theories of Social Protection in Latin America -- 1.3 Some New Departures… -- 1.3.1 Wage Earners Are the Object of Social Protection Institutions -- 1.3.2 Social Protection Institutions Are Stratification Mechanisms -- 1.3.3 Social Protection Institutions and Dominant Forms of Stratification -- 1.3.4 Methodologically, from Correlation to Causality -- 1.4 The Approach in This Book -- 1.4.1 The Need for Theory -- 1.4.2 A Late Industrialisers Perspective -- 1.4.3 A Dynamic and Comparative Perspective Is Essential… -- 1.4.4 Comparative Social Protection -- 1.4.5 Shortcuts: Pensions and Social Assistance -- 1.5 The Structure of the Book -- 1.5.1 Framework -- References -- 2: Methods -- 2.1 Methods in the Comparative Literature -- 2.2 Shifting Attention to Causality -- 2.3 'Effects of Causes' and 'Causes of Effects' Explanations -- 2.4 The Potential Outcomes Framework -- 2.5 Directed Acyclical Graphs -- 2.6 Causality Deficits in Social Protection Research -- 2.7 Methodological Challenges -- 2.8 Conclusions -- References -- 3: Framework -- 3.1 Framework -- 3.1.1 Synchronic: Core Institutions -- 3.1.2 Diachronic: Critical Realignments -- 3.1.3 Analytic: Dominant Stratification -- 3.2 Stratification and Theories of Welfare Institutions: A Digression -- 3.3 Stratification Effects -- 3.4 Testing the Framework -- 3.4.1 Origins -- 3.4.2 Stratification Effects -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Institutions -- 4.1 Data and Indicators -- 4.2 Pension Schemes -- 4.2.1 Occupational Pensions -- 4.2.1.1 Bismarck vs. Beveridge -- 4.2.1.2 Membership Entitlements -- 4.2.1.3 A Less Advantaged Worker Perspective -- 4.2.2 Individual Retirement Savings Plans.

​This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organised in three groups. The earlier chapters discuss in turn appropriate methods, an analytical framework, and core institutions. The book advocates a causal inference approach to the study of the institutions that have dominated social protection in the region: occupational insurance, individual retirement savings, and social assistance. The middle chapters study social protection's main stratification effects, focussing on stratification effects on employment, protection, and worker incorporation. The later chapters then assess social protection outcomes and identify country groupings including their evolution over time. The book, and its approach and findings, contributes to the advancement of a theory of social protection amongst late industrialisers. This is an open access book.

This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. This has affected the working lives of hundreds of millions of workers in high-, middle- and low-income countries. The growth of contemporary retail has been driven by the commercialised production of many goods previously produced unpaid by women within the home. Sourcing is now largely undertaken through global value chains in low- or middle-income economies, using a 'cheap' feminised labour force to produce low-price goods. As women have been drawn into the labour force, households are increasingly dependent on the purchase of food and consumer goods, blurring the boundaries between paid and unpaid work. This book examines how gendered patterns of work have changed and explores the extent to which global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries.

Oktober 1972: Eine junge Chilenin, ausgestattet mit einem Stipendium der Leipziger Karl-Marx-Universität, landet mit ihrer fünfmonatigen Tochter in Frankfurt/Main, von wo sie ein mit ostdeutschen Rentnern besetzter Zug nach Dresden bringt. Dort endlich trifft sie ihren Mann Alberto wieder, der an seiner Doktorarbeit schreibt. Zehn Jahre wird die Familie in der DDR bleiben und dabei die Höhen und Tiefen des Emigranten-Daseins erleben: Freundschaft und Ablehnung, Hilfe und Neid. Von diesen teilweise sehr persönlichen Erlebnissen und Gefühlen erzählt die Autorin mit zuweilen schonungsloser Offenheit, berichtet aber auch von so mancher Kuriosität, die der ?real existierende Sozialismus? für die südamerikanische Familie bereithielt.

The rapid spread of large-scale and innovative social transfers in the developing world has made a key contribution to the significant reduction in global poverty over the last decade. Explaining how flagship anti-poverty programmes emerged, this book provides the first comprehensive account of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries. Armando Barrientos begins by focusing on the ethical and conceptual foundations of social assistance, and he discusses the justifications for assisting those in poverty. He provides a primer on poverty analysis, and introduces readers to the theory of optimal transfers. He then shifts the focus to practice, and introduces a classification of social assistance programmes to help readers understand the diversity in approaches and design in developing countries. The book concludes with an analysis of the financing and politics of the emerging institutions and of their potential to address global poverty

Ethical sourcing, both through fair trade and ethical trade, is increasingly entering the mainstream of food retailing. Large supermarkets have come under pressure to improve the returns to small producers and conditions of employment within their supply chains. But how effective is ethical sourcing? Can it genuinely address the problems facing workers and producers in the global food system? Is it a new form of northern protectionism or can southern initiatives be developed to create a more sustainable approach to ethical sourcing? How can the rights and participation of workers and small pro

Social protection for the poor and poorest : an introduction / Armando Barrientos and David Hulme -- Risks, rights, and needs : compatible or contradictory bases for social protection? / Lauchlan T. Munro -- Insurance for the poor? / Stefan Dercon, Tessa Bold and Cesar Calvo -- Transformative social protection : the currency of social justice / Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Stephen Devereux -- Poverty traps and natural disasters and assets in Ethiopia and Honduras / Michael R. Carter ... [et al.] -- Indonesia's social protection during and after the crisis / Sudarno Sumarto, Asep Suryahadi and Sami Bazzi -- HIV/AIDS, chronic poverty and social protection / Rachel Slater -- The social protection function of short-term public works programmes in the context of chronic poverty / Anna McCord -- The emergence and popularity of conditional cash transfers in Latin America / Tatiana Feitosa de Britto -- Assisting the poorest in Bangladesh : learning from BRAC's 'Targeting the ultra poor' programme / David Hulme and Karen Moore -- Protecting the poorest with cash transfers in low income countries / Bernd Schubert -- Process deficits in the provision of social protection in rural Maharashtra / Sony Pellisery -- Conceptualising the politics of social protection in Africa / Sam Hickey -- Political incumbency and drought relief in Africa / Ngonidzashe Munemo -- Can low income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa afford basic social protection? First results of a modelling exercise / Christina Behrendt -- Financing social protection / Armando Barrientos -- Embedding social protection in the developing world / Armando Barrientos and David Hulme

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