Social Assistance in Developing Countries
@inproceedings{Barrientos2013SocialAI,
title={Social Assistance in Developing Countries},
author={A. Barrientos},
year={2013}
}The rapid spread of large-scale and innovative social transfers in the developing world has made a key contribution to the significant reduction in global poverty over the last decade. Explaining how flagship anti-poverty programmes emerged, this book provides the first comprehensive account of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries. Armando Barrientos begins by focusing on the ethical and conceptual foundations of social assistance, and he discusses the… Expand
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