Date: 2024
Type: Book
Welfare goes global : making progress and catching up
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024
ROSE, Richard, Welfare goes global : making progress and catching up, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77631
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This innovative book shows that the health, education, and employment of billions of people have been improving on every continent in the past three decades. The globalization of welfare has had the biggest impact in developing countries, where more than five-sixths of the world’s population live. In Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East there has been great progress in eradicating infant mortality and illiteracy, people are living longer, and more youths have a chance to get a secondary education. These achievements are the product of a welfare mix combining resources of the household, the market, and the state. Given low starting points, only a minority of developing countries have already caught up with the high standards of welfare in Europe, the United States and Canada, and the Asia Pacific region. Slow but steady rates of progress show that people in a majority of developing countries can expect to catch up with the high, fixed standards of welfare in the next three decades. This will happen sooner in China and later in India, because China has been unusually successful in using its resources to promote welfare, while India has been below the global average. These conclusions are based on the book’s systematic analysis of the Global Welfare Database, which combines official and unofficial data covering 95 per cent of the world’s population. The success of highly developed countries raises questions about how much is enough welfare. At what age will youths learn more by leaving classrooms and becoming employees? Is length of life or quality of life more important for older people? Should unpaid work caring for children and older family members have the same value as working and paying taxes in the official economy?
Table of Contents:
-- Part I. Welfare across Time and Space -- 1:Making Progress Globally -- 2:The Welfare Mix -- 3:Welfare is about More than Money -- 4:The Development of Welfare -- Part II. Comparing Forms of Welfare -- 5:Health: Living Longer and Avoiding Death -- 6:Education: Quantity and Quality -- 7:Work for Women -- Part III. The Globalization of Countries and People -- 8:Countries Going Global -- 9:People Going Global -- 10:Unfinished Business -- Appendix: The Global Welfare Database
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Published: 08 February 2024
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77631
Full-text via DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198908463.001.0001
ISBN: 9780198908494; 9780198908463
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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