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State Responsibility
State Responsibility
to Social Welfare
{ By Lecturer Tulasa Neupane
Introduction
States have the legal obligation to protect and promote human
rights, including the right to social security, and ensure that
people can realize their rights without discrimination.
The overall responsibility of the State includes ensuring the
Climate change:
it is likely to lead to calls for new welfare spending
It may challenge economic growth and therefore welfare states’ past dependence
on this growth.
Immigration
indigenous respondents are less supportive of redistribution when there is a
higher share of immigrants in their region
could reduce people’s willingness to see welfare services as universal
Globalization as an economic challenge
The most cited theories from the 1970s and 1980s book about “small states in world
markets”
The new consensus that emerged in the 1990s was different. Focus changed from
market failures that required political solutions, to state failures that required
market solutions.
Previously, manufacturers could have a “home market” from which they might
eventually expand to the world market. Currently, there is not much of a home
market for products and services that can be traded.
Globalization constitute a challenge to equality
Globalization triggers a downward slope by which workers are becoming a commodity
and citizens receive less social security and the economy is driven by capital.
Outsourcing
globalisation entails a pressure against equality
trade-off between equality and employment
High minimum wages would make it impossible for employers to earn a profit. Hence,