Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus.Offers the first global, regionally diverse study of the invisible economy of care, including case studies from diverse regional contexts of Africa, Asia andLatin AmericaFrames the debate on care and highlights policy experimentation and ideas currently in fluxIncludes new research and data on developing countries, showing how, where care options for the socially disadvantaged are limited, failing to socialize the costs of care exacerbates existing inequalitiesComes at a moment when, if not yet marked by a generalized care crisis, the worlds existing systems are under strain and in need of rethinkingFeatures introductory chapters that set out the conceptual framework and findings on individual country studies, and a concluding chapter that draws out the transnational dimensions of care

Shahra Razavi is Senior Researcher at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). She specializes in the gender dimensions of social development, with a particular focus on livelihoods and social policy. Her recent books includeThe Gendered Impacts of Liberalization: Towards "Embedded Liberalism"? (2009) andGender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of 'the Social', edited with Shireen Hassim (2006).

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1 Rethinking Care in a Development Context: An Introduction 1Shahra Razavi

2 The Good, the Bad and the Confusing: The Political Economy of Social Care Expansion in South Korea 31Ito Peng

3 South Africa: A Legacy of Family Disruption 51Debbie Budlender and Francie Lund

4 Harsh Choices: Chinese Womens Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic Reform 73Sarah Cook and Xiao-yuan Dong

5 AWidening Gap? The Political and Social Organization of Childcare in Argentina 93Eleonor Faur

6 Who Cares in Nicaragua? A Care Regime in an Exclusionary Social Policy Context 121Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Koen Voorend

7 A Perfect Storm?Welfare, Care, Gender and Generations in Uruguay 149Fernando Filgueira, Magdalena Gutierrez and Jorge Papadópulos

8 Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of Childcare 175Rajni Palriwala and Neetha N.

9 Putting Two and Two Together? Early Childhood Education, Mothers Employment and Care Service Expansion in Chile and Mexico 205Silke Staab and Roberto Gerhard

10 Going Global: The Transnationalization of Care 233Nicola Yeates

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