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The State of the South

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The ERC application for which this is an application for support, is a comparative study of changes in the form of statehood in six countries in the global South: Argentina, Chile, Philippines, India, Ghana and South Africa. The overarching question to be addressed is this: Is there an overall trend towards convergence towards a single form of statehood in these countries? The project will focus on two aspects of the state: economic policy and social policy. The starting point is that all states have to promote economic growth while at the same time sustaining state legitimacy and social stability. While economic policy is crucial for the promotion of growth and capitalist development, social policies are important for sustaining state legitimacy and social stability. The project aims to trace the evolution of state forms in the six countries through analysing their economic and social policies, focusing mainly on the period from the 1970s until today, and to identify patterns of both continuity and change. The project will focus on: Economic policies, including financial policy (system of regulation, degree of state ownership) and industrial policy (state ownership, licensing, trade policies, tax system), and Social policies (direct or conditional cash transfers, pensions, unemployment benefits, public works, health, education, water and sanitation)

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