Building equality and opportunity through social guarantees new approaches to public policy and the realization of rights

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Gacitúa-Marió,Estanislao (Author), Norton,Andrew (Author), and Georgieva,Sophia V. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2009
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780821378830
    Published:
    Washington, DC: World Bank
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    9780821378830; 082137883X
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Jamaica, Globalization, Social conditions, Social policy, St. Kitts and Nevis, and International government publication (igp)
    Notes:
    270 p., Examines the validity of a social guarantees approach as a framework for evaluating, monitoring, and improving the design of social policy. Social guarantees are defined as sets of policy mechanisms that determine citizens' entitlements related to basic services and ensure their fulfillment on the part of the state. Includes Rachel Hannah Nadelman, Lavern Louard-Greaves, and Carol Watson Williams' "Achieving equitable and inclusive citizenship through social policy : the case of Jamaica and St. Kitts and Nevis."

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