Overview
- Identifies the root cause of extremism in Afghanistan
- Offers a framework of integrating formal and informal social protection
- Provides a new data collection and analysis methodology that will benefit developing and developed countries
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Social protection
- Informal social protection
- informal assistance
- informal insurance
- informal labour market measures
- social assistance
- social insurance
- labour market interventions
- welfare regimes
- informal security regimes
- insecurity regimes
- multiple regime framework
- artificial intelligence
- unsupervised machine learning
- K-means clustering
- DBSCAN clustering
- madrasas
- terrorism
- extremism
- colonisation
About this book
​This book analyzes the importance of informal social protection provided by religious institutions such as madrassas in a low-income country such as Pakistan. This book explains that Madrassas are religious schools that have existed in many Muslim countries for centuries and contributed significantly to preserving, forming, and extending human knowledge in medieval times. Further, madrassas are now more commonly viewed as the providers of a narrow education, supporting religious fundamentalism, that may lead to terrorism. However, this book asserts that education is not the only function performed by madrassas. They are a significant source of welfare support for the vulnerable and marginalized households in many low-income countries.
This book helps the readers to understand the concept of informal social protection not conceptualized previously. In addition, its various attributes and institutions providing such a form of welfare worldwide are explained indetail; analyzing the usefulness of such a form of social protection would benefit readers of social policy, national governments, and international donor/aid agencies. This book also provides a prescriptive framework for integrating formal and informal social protection.
This book provides a new "Multiple Regime Framework", for identifying various regimes in one country at one point in time by applying a novel data collection and analysis methodology. The application of this framework would be of particular interest to social policy scholars, national governments, and donor/aid agencies because it will result in better targeting of social protection policies in the wake of fiscal constraints. Lastly, this book provides a novel data collection and analysis strategy that will benefit the reader of research methodology, development consultants, donor agencies, and policy practitioners interested in using artificial intelligence to make informed and targetedpolicy decisions.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Zahid Mumtaz holds a PhD from the Australian National University, Australia. Zahid teaches various undergraduate and post-graduate courses at Crawford School of Public Policy and the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. Zahid’s writings have appeared in prestigious social and natural science journals. Before joining academia, Zahid was a career public servant in Pakistan, where he held crucial middle-level management positions in federal and state governments. He has also worked with international donor agencies and Non-governmental Organizations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Informal Social Protection and Poverty
Authors: Zahid Mumtaz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6474-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-6473-2Published: 06 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-6476-3Published: 07 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-6474-9Published: 04 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 295
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Policy, Labour Law/Social Law, Labor Economics, Political Sociology, Terrorism and Political Violence