Building Decent Societies: Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development

by Peter Townsend

This book builds the case for a comprehensive social security system to be developed in all countries - to eliminate desperate conditions of poverty, reverse growing inequality and sustain economic growth. It gives the history of the rich countries in meeting poverty and shows how the strategies in the poor countries can be greatly improved.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230235255
• ISBN13: 9780230235250
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.5"