PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 incorporates the right to social security. In the global North, the post-World War II decades witnessed the rise of welfare states with extensive social security programmes. But what state of social protection has evolved in the global South over the last 20 years? And how does it compare to the global North? Drawing on large global databases, this chapter provides an overview of the state of social protection around the world, mapping the institutions and normative models of social protection. The argument is that social protection develops in six relatively independent dimensions that make up the state of social protection: welfare provisions with the two dimensions of coverage and generosity; and social foundations of social protection with four dimensions: legal, fiscal, administrative and normative.