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"The book aims to be a reference point for the sociopolitical analyses of welfare systems in the Global South. It is now generally agreed that the path to wealth development among the nations of the 'Global South' is substantially different from that of the nations of the 'Global North.' While the capital-rich industrialised capitalist states took the social policy road, the South has taken a developmentalist path. Colonialism and its lingering legacies, among many other things, have pushed countries of the Global South onto a different path-dependency than the Global North. However, in the last 30 years, there has been a rapid development and expansion in social policy in the Global South due to globalisation, including widespread market penetration, mobility of capital, a shift in the manufacturing heartlands, social movements, changing attitudes of the global multilateral and financial institutes, and demographic transformations, which have changed the priorities of policy makers in these nations"--