Income and Influence : Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies

by Kapstein, Ethan B.; Milanovic, Branko

• ISBN13: 9780880992695
• ISBN10: 0880992697
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: W E Upjohn Inst for

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
1 Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies	1	(18)
Theories of Social Policy and the Welfare State	4	(7)
The Social Sector in Emerging Market Economies	11	(7)
What are the Options?	18	(1)
2 Openness and Changes in Income Distribution	19	(14)
What Does it Mean to be Globalized?	20	(3)
Modeling the Channels of Influence	23	(2)
Globalization-Related Variables: Some Recent Facts	25	(3)
Income Distribution and Globalization: The Empirics	28	(5)
3 Three Crises: Latin America, The Transition, East Asia	33	(26)
Structural Adjustment and the Politics of Economic Reform	34	(5)
The Debt Crisis in Latin America and the Birth of The Washington Consensus	39	(7)
The Postcommunist Transition	46	(7)
The Asian Financial Crisis	53	(6)
4 Reforming Social Policy: The Cases of Chile and Korea	59	(18)
Pension Reform: Chile and Beyond	60	(7)
Unemployment Insurance in Korea	67	(6)
Generalizing from Cases?	73	(4)
5 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations	77	(10)
Pension Reform: Is Privatization the Answer?	79	(2)
What Role for Unemployment Insurance?	81	(3)
Priorities for the International Community	84	(3)
References	87	(10)
The Authors	97	(2)
Index	99	(4)
About the Institute	103