Welfare Goes Global
Making Progress and Catching Up
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 February 2024
- ISBN 9780198908463
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 245x160x20 mm
- Weight 496 g
- Language English 590
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Short description:
In this innovative book, Richard Rose draws on a systematic analysis of the Global Welfare Database to explore the globalization of welfare over the last three decades, and to examine its impact on the health, education, and employment of billions of people across the world.
MoreLong description:
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 lives. 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 young people are able to obtain 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 Richard Rose'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 young people 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?
A critical reader by the end of this book will very much be a potential writer exploring the unanswered questions that Rose leaves written, under-written or un-written.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Welfare across Time and Space
Making Progress Globally
The Welfare Mix
Welfare is about More than Money
The Development of Welfare
Part II. Comparing Forms of Welfare
Health: Living Longer and Avoiding Death
Education: Quantity and Quality
Work for Women
Part III. The Globalization of Countries and People
Countries Going Global
People Going Global
Unfinished Business
Appendix: The Global Welfare Database
