DVM 2110 Lecture 6: Before First Test

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 2110
• Professor: Sonia Gulati

Document Summary

History and evolution of social protectionism and the welfare policies. Study comparatively models of social protection in different types of the welfare state. Understand policies and institutions by which governments provide social protection to their citizens. Discuss the in uence of power relations and regimes on the conception of the welfare state. Discuss major elds of social protectionism such as distribution, health care, eduction. What is the state/ who is the state. The world bank- social protection consists of public interventions to assist individuals, households and communities in better managing income risks. The objectives of these interventions are a subset of overall development objectives of economically sustainable participatory development with poverty reduction. Only pays attention to the income/ economically aspects. The hollow promise of modernization and industrialization: inequality and the resultant downwards rendering people to hardship and poverty, poverty was regarded the natural condition of the labouring poor (lack of foresight and thrift)