Welfare State Revisited

José Antonio Ocampo is codirector of Banco de la Republica (Colombia’s central bank), professor in the School of International and Public Affairs (on leave for public service), and copresident of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. He formerly held a number of positions with the United Nations and the government of Colombia. His books with Columbia University Press are Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach (2009, coauthor), Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis (2012, coedited with José Antonio Alonso), and Too Little, Too Late: The Quest to Resolve Sovereign Debt Crises (2016, also coedited with Joseph E. Stiglitz).Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is also copresident of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute, and the cochair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD. His Columbia University Press books include Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress (2014).

A robust, empirically based defense of extensive, universalist social protection regimes against the neoliberal counterintellectual revolution.

• AcronymsPrefacePart I1. The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century, by Joseph E. Stiglitz2. Adapting Labor and Social Protection Systems to Twenty-First-Century Capitalism, by Sandra Polaski3. The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Latest Trends in Social Protection, by Isabel Ortiz4. Supporting Equal Opportunities Through Laws and Policies: Global Progress and Persisting Challenges, by Jody Heymann and Aleta Sprague5. The Sustainable Development Goals, Domestic Resource Mobilization, and the Poor, by Nora Lustig6. Intra-Household Inequality and Overall Inequality, by Ravi Kanbur7. Human Capital, Inequality, and Growth, by Torben M. AndersenPart II8. The EU Welfare State: Past, Present, and Future, by Elva Bova and Ernst Stetter9. Visible Costs and Hidden Gains, by Kalle Moene10. Social Protection Systems in Latin America: Toward Universalism and Redistribution, by José Antonio Ocampo and Natalie Gómez-Arteaga11. Social Protection in Latin America: Some Challenges for Reducing Inequality, by Ana Sojo12. Do Competitive Markets of Individual Savings Accounts and Health Insurance Work as Part of the Welfare State?, by Andras Uthoff13. Innovations in Protecting the Old: Mostly Social Insurance and Some Assets, by Teresa Ghilarducci14. Universal Basic Income and the Welfare State, by Richard McGahey15. Employment Guarantee in the Age of Precarity: The Case of India’s NREGA, by Amit Basole and Arjun JayadevContributorsIndex