Social assistance in developing countries / Armando Barrientos, BWPI, University of Manchester.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: xiii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- 9781107039025 (hbk.)
- 362.582091724 BAR 23 011625
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-249) and indexes.
Part I. Introduction: 1. The emergence of social assistance in developing countries; Part II. Foundations: 2. Ethical foundations; 3. Poverty concepts and measures for social assistance; 4. Optimal anti-poverty transfers; Part III. Practice: 5. Anti-poverty transfers in practice; 6. Incidence, implementation and impact; 7. Budgets, finance and politics; Part IV. Conclusion: 8. The future of social assistance in developing countries.
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries.
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