Welfare states and the future

Welfare states in perspective / Pradip Bose -- Economic foundations of welfare state systems / Sandwip Kumar Das -- A world economy based on the welfare state principle / Hartmut Elsehans -- Globalization and welfare states / Ramesh Mishra -- The British welfare state : development and challenges / Tom Burden -- The welfare state system in France / Sophie Nadal -- The welfare state in postwar Germany / Lutz Leisering -- The welfare state in Austria / Emmerich Talos and Marcel Fink -- The Swedish welfare state and new challenges / Nimmi Kurian -- Political economy of the Finnish welfare state / Jukka Pekkarinen -- Challenges facing the Danish welfare state / JГёrn Henrik Petersen -- Modernization of the European model of social protection / Joakim Palme -- Recent welfare reforms in the United States / Asha Gupta -- Canada's changing welfare state / B. Vivekanandan -- Welfare designs and peripheral realities : the Brazilian dilemma / Dilip Loundo -- South Africa : reflections on establishing [...]a welfare state / Albert J. Venter -- The welfare state in Japan and China : development and challenges / Christian Aspalter -- The welfare state system in India / Anand Kumar