Globalization and its impact on the welfare state concept in developed and developing countries
This paper is an attempt to link Globalization with the ideas of Welfare State. There are notions that the Welfare State is severely challenged by the borderless approach of globalization. While welfare regimes are focused on the need of specific countries, the need to be competitive against other c...
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| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6576320 |
| Source: | Estudios de Deusto: revista de la Universidad de Deusto, ISSN 0423-4847, Vol. 66, Nº. 1, 2018, pags. 117-132 |
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This paper is an attempt to link Globalization with the ideas of Welfare State.
There are notions that the Welfare State is severely challenged by the borderless
approach of globalization. While welfare regimes are focused on the need of specific
countries, the need to be competitive against other countries is observed to be putting
significant pressures for countries to have common welfare programs. Nonetheless,
this challenge is not simple considering that the provision of welfare programs are
not products of recent developments but of old traditions that have helped countries
to where they are now. At the same time, younger nations are developing their own
welfare regimes tailored to their own governance capacities and economic agenda.
With these differences, globalization is seen to be a rallying or a diverging point
depending on which side will one nation benefits the most. Using different lenses and
approaches, we conclude that globalization has in fact strengthened and improved
welfare systems in developed countries where they converged instead of diverging
from each other. Developing states, on the hand, have different welfare regimes that
they are adapting not in a straight line but in a case approach to globalization. This is
the reason why we do not have a common welfare regime for these countries. |
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