Employment guarantee or minimum income? Workfare and welfare in developing countries

Seekings, Jeremy

doi:10.1504/ijewe.2006.009357

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Are Developing Countries Really Defying the Embedded Liberalism Compact?

Nooruddin¹,

Rudra²

2014

World Pol.

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This study evaluates the embedded liberalism hypothesis in a broad swath of less developed countries (LDCs). The authors find that LDC governments pursue a distinct welfare state policy that protects citizens from economic insecurities associated with global market expansion. Specifically, governments use public employment—and particularly employment in civil services and administration—to foster domestic stability alongside market expansion. However, such jobs are targeted to politically salient groups, not poorer groups that might also face increased economic uncertainty postopenness. In turn, public employment shores up public support for openness. The authors' findings suggest that free traders have reasons both to celebrate and to bemoan this LDC embedded liberalism compact. On the positive side, LDC governments are working hard to maintain political support for free trade; on the other hand, the compromise of protecting privileged groups at the expense of others in society raises questions about the long-term sustainability of their strategy.

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Are Developing Countries Really Defying the Embedded Liberalism Compact?

Nooruddin¹,

Rudra²

2014

World Pol.

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Social Assistance Reform During A Period of Fiscal Stress

Berg

Siebrits

2010

SSRN Journal

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This paper reflects on the current state and likely future of the South African social assistance system, focusing specifically on its fiscal sustainability, its effectiveness as an instrument to combat poverty in a longer-term developmental sense, and its impact on the allocation of resources. Despite showing that the grants system is an effective intervention which markedly reduces poverty and apparently does not have severe undesirable behavioural effects, the paper argues that the scope for strengthening antipoverty policy in South Africa by further expanding the social grants system nonetheless has become very limited. The main policy conclusions of the paper are that sustainable poverty reduction in South Africa requires inclusive job-creating economic growth, and that anti-poverty policy should remain focused on achieving his objective.

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Employment guarantee or minimum income? Workfare and welfare in developing countries

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Are Developing Countries Really Defying the Embedded Liberalism Compact?

Are Developing Countries Really Defying the Embedded Liberalism Compact?

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Social Assistance Reform During A Period of Fiscal Stress

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