New Zealand has experienced both sweeping economic and social reform and growing poverty and income inequality in the last twenty years. This book explores the changes to social security provision and coverage in the context of these developments and of widening national and international poverty and inequality.
The book argues that the policy initiatives have altered the nature of social security and in doing so have significantly transformed the nature of social citizenship. The author brings the New Zealand data together in a way that has not been done previously and provides the reader with both a detailed discussion of the work on poverty and living standards in New Zealand and the political and economic context within which social security changes have occurred.
Linking the discussion to international changes in social security and to the international literature on poverty and inequality, the author demonstrates the important implications the New Zealand directions have for the development of social security internationally.
The book will be of considerable interest for all those interested in international reshaping of state support for the poorest and most vulnerable and its development in a neoliberal and Third Way.
81 Chapter title Part II Anti-poverty policies in rich countries
195 Chapter title Part III Anti-poverty policies in poor countries
349 Chapter title Part IV Future anti-poverty policies: national and international
1 Chapter title Part I International anti-poverty policy: the problems of the Washington Consensus
53 The international measurement of poverty and anti-poverty policies THREE The international measurement of poverty and anti-poverty policies David Gordon Introduction This chapter will describe briefly how international social policy and academic research on poverty has been changing in the past decade and, in particular, how a widening chasm is developing between the anti-poverty policies being advocated by UN agencies and those of the EU. These latter evolving anti- poverty policies have a number of profound implications for the measurement of poverty by
157 EIGHT ‘food that cannot be eaten’: the shame of Uganda’s anti-poverty policies Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo and Amon Mwiine introduction Over the past 25 years, the varying approaches encompassed within Uganda’s anti-poverty effort have been touted as a best case model in the developing world (Hickey, 2011). Uganda is a land-locked country lying astride the equator in east central Africa. It is closely linked by economic and colonial history to Kenya in the east, Tanzania in the south, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the north
199 TEN Towards global principles for dignity-based anti-poverty policies Erika K. Gubrium and Ivar Lødemel The context in which policy-making and delivery occurs is important when analysing the impact of policy. A brief example illustrates this point. One of the low-income respondents in rural Uganda invited us to her homestead. Her home was a hut made of dried mud with no windows. She hoped to be able to mend the thatch roof before the next rainy season. The empty dirt floor was just big enough for the floor mats that were rolled out at bedtime. Her
113 7 A late and uncertain comer in developing anti-poverty policies Main features of anti-poverty policies in Italy Until the very recent introduction of a national and tendentially universalistic minimum income benefit in 2017 and 2019, the public policy approach to poverty in Italy was historically weak, fragmented and indirect (Negri and Saraceno, 1996; Benassi, 2000; Kazepov, 2015). As discussed in previous chapters, the comparatively limited role of the state in the fight against poverty is explained by a combination of other factors that characterise
155 SEVEN changing policies: how faith-based organisations participate in poverty policies Danielle Dierckx, Jan Vranken and Ingemar Elander introduction Promoting participation in decision making is seen as a cure against many problems of policy making in modern societies, with the expectation that participation would ensure better quality of decisions, and close the gap between politicians and citizens. However, shortcomings in participatory processes have also been identified, such as the relation between decision making outside and within the
