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Global social policy in the making : the foundations of the social protection floor /

This book by the world's leading authority on global social policy examines why and how the Social Protection Floor became ILO, UN and G20 policy and how the World Bank and IMF took steps to lay its foundation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deacon, Bob (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : The Policy Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Global social policy in the making
  • Contents
  • List of tables, figures and boxes
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Boxes
  • List of abbreviations
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The global economic and social policy context
  • Introduction
  • The era of targeted safety nets
  • The struggle to re-establish universalism
  • The North-South progressive impasse
  • New universalism from below within the Global South
  • ILO and visions for extending social security
  • 3. The development of the SPF Recommendation
  • Introduction
  • From a benefit package to a set of guarantees
  • Only cash transfers or access to services also
  • From a global social floor to national SPFs
  • From a global social contract to national responsibility?
  • 4. The SPF, social dialogue and tripartite global governance in practice
  • Challenging path dependency
  • Steering the SPF through the ILCs
  • Conclusion
  • 5. The SPF and the struggle for global social policy synergy
  • Introduction
  • Working with the UN
  • Working with the G8 and G20
  • Working with the World Bank and the IMF
  • The new UN SPIAC-B
  • 6. Implications for understanding global social policy change
  • Recapitulation and explanation
  • Theories of global social policy change: towards the ASID framework
  • Using ASID to explain the SPF
  • Other theoretical considerations
  • 7. Reflections and prospects
  • Introduction
  • Assessing the SPF Recommendation
  • Would the SPF become embedded in the post-MDG UN development agenda?
  • The ongoing campaigns to implement SPFs
  • The proposal for a Global Fund for Social Protection
  • The implications for global social governance
  • Endnotes
  • References
  • Index.