MODELS OF WELFARE FOR DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES - A CASE FOR INDIGENISATION

Many efforts have been made to develop various models; to explain the nature of social welfare development in the industrialised countries. Wilensky and Lebeaux's (1965) popular model of the residual and increm ental welfare is:; a significant example of these attempts. These mode ls have also been used to study developing countries. This study argue s that such welfare models, discounting their heuristic value, are not relevant to developing countries since they are derived from the cont exts of advanced industrialised countries. Two recent attempts at conc eptualising welfare development of developing countries are examined; they have originated conceptually from the developing countries. It is pertinent to formulate and develop indigenous welfare models since th ey can reflect, more accurately, the nature of welfare delivery in the se countries.