Abu Sharkh, Miriam and Gough, Ian 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0597-3106
(2010)
Global welfare regimes: a cluster analysis.
Global Social Policy, 10 (1).
pp. 27-58.
ISSN 1468-0181
Abstract
This article tests the claim that a small number of distinct ‘welfare regimes’, combining institutional patterns and social welfare outcomes, can be identified across the developing world. It develops a methodology for clustering a large number of developing countries, identifying and ranking their welfare regimes, assessing their stability over the decade 1990—2000, and relating these to important structural variables. It confirms the distinction between three meta-welfare regimes: proto-welfare state regimes, informal security regimes and insecurity regimes. However, it discriminates between relatively successful and failing informal security regimes. Regime membership is ‘sticky’ over time, but has been modified by two global trends: the HIV-AIDS pandemic in Africa and the growing role of remittances in some countries.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://gsp.sagepub.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 SAGE |
| Divisions: | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Apr 2011 14:23 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Apr 2024 18:57 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/35378 |
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