4. Supporting Equal Opportunities Through Laws and Policies: Global Progress and Persisting Challenges

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. INITIATIVE FOR POLICY DIALOGUE AT COLUMBIA: CHALLENGES IN DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION v
3. CONTENTS vii
4. ACRONYMS ix
5. PREFACE xi
6. PART 1
7. 1. The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century 3
8. 2. Adapting Labor and Social Protection Systems to Twenty-First-Century Capitalism 38
9. 3. The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Latest Trends in Social Protection 71
10. 4. Supporting Equal Opportunities Through Laws and Policies: Global Progress and Persisting Challenges 98
11. 5. The Sustainable Development Goals, Domestic Resource Mobilization, and the Poor 127
12. 6. Intrahousehold Inequality and Overall Inequality 147
13. 7. Human Capital, Inequality, and Growth 165
14. PART II
15. 8. The EU Welfare State: Past, Present, and Future 191
16. 9. Visible Costs and Hidden Gains 213
17. 10. Social Protection Systems in Latin America: Toward Universalism and Redistribution 230
18. 11. Social Protection in Latin America: Some Challenges for Reducing Inequality 258
19. 12. Do Competitive Markets of Individual Savings Accounts and Health Insurance Work as Part of the Welfare State? 277
20. 13. Innovations in Protecting the Old: Mostly Social Insurance and Some Assets 295
21. 14. Universal Basic Income and the Welfare State 316
22. 15. Employment Guarantee in the Age of Precarity: The Case of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 337
23. Contributors 365
24. Index 369