Includes bibliographical references and index.

The politics of welfare in the Global South : an introduction / Sattwick Dey Biswas and Cleopas Gabriel Sambo -- Exchanging theories and concepts on welfare policies between North and South / Ivan Harsløf -- What kind of welfare states are on the rise in the Global South? / Einar Øverbye -- Constructing social rights for the poor : entitlements to social cash transfers across the Global South / Lutz Leisering and Katrin Weible -- Anti-poverty interventions across "most different" settings : considering change over time in comparisons of emotional impact / Erika Gubrium -- Conditional and unconditional universalism : normative difference and the slow expansion of social protection in Africa / Jeremy Seekings -- Decentralization and its impacts on disability service delivery in China : an example of providing accessible government websites / Biao He, Rune Halvorsen, Peng Ding, and Wanhong Zhang -- Gender in welfare in the South : an unruly category? / Cleopas Gabriel Sambo -- Comparative urbanism and travelling theory : gentrification as a global urban concept for discussing social displacement and the right to wellbeing in the city / Heidi Bergsli -- The politics of social protection in Latin America / Armando Barrientos -- The politics of poverty alleviation in China / Robert Walker and Yang Lichao -- Conclusion : subversion of the anti-politics machine of development : emerging and alternative concepts of citizenship in the South / Sony Pellissery.

"The book aims to be a reference point for the sociopolitical analyses of welfare systems in the Global South. It is now generally agreed that the path to wealth development among the nations of the 'Global South' is substantially different from that of the nations of the 'Global North.' While the capital-rich industrialised capitalist states took the social policy road, the South has taken a developmentalist path. Colonialism and its lingering legacies, among many other things, have pushed countries of the Global South onto a different path-dependency than the Global North. However, in the last 30 years, there has been a rapid development and expansion in social policy in the Global South due to globalisation, including widespread market penetration, mobility of capital, a shift in the manufacturing heartlands, social movements, changing attitudes of the global multilateral and financial institutes, and demographic transformations, which have changed the priorities of policy makers in these nations"-- Provided by publisher.