Title: Social Services in High-Growth Developing Countries
Abstract: Social services are an important component of a growing society. A high level of social services is a reflection of a developed society. The ability of a society to provide social services is in large part contingent on both economics, political and institutional settings of an economy. Policies to enable effective social service provision include universal coverage, high and efficient spending and (re-)distribution of income and wealth through spending, transfers and progressive taxation. The higher the economic growth rate, the more social services, at least theoretically, it can afford to provide and viceversa. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of social services in high growth developing economies and examine whether they have achieved such social outcomes. More specifically, this paper reviews the development of the social sector through an analysis of the key social indicators for selected high growth developing countries. A second aim of this paper is to review social development policies adopted by some of these high growth developing economies. The main motivation for undertaking this review of policies and strategy is twofold: (1) to investigate the existence of any commonalities in social development policies; and (2) to provide a set of policies, as varied as they may be, that could be used by other developing countries to stimulate the growth of their social sector.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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