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Choices for spending government revenue: New African oil, gas, and mining economiesThis paper examines a broad range of opportunities for addressing the pressing human development needs of low-income countries by using new oil, gas, and mineral discoveries...
Extractives Education FrameworkWorking Paper
The global politics of social protectionSince the early 2000s international development agencies have actively promoted social protection as a new global public policy...
Africa Policy transfer PoliticsWorking Paper
The politics of scaling up social protection in KenyaLiterature on social protection in Kenya shows progress in implementation of cash transfers but not the social health insurance scheme...
Kenya Social protection Cash transfersWorking Paper
Social protection, electoral competition, and political branding in MalawiCompetitive elections in many parts of Africa generate powerful incentives to presidential candidates (and to a lesser extent political parties) to brand themselves in ways that transcend regional or ethnic loyalties...
Elections Political branding Social protectionWorking Paper
Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980–2016Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction...
Poverty Child poverty PoliticsWorking Paper
Building a conservative welfare state in BotswanaBotswana’s welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa (such as Mauritius and South Africa) and extensive (in comparison with its low-income neighbours to the north and east)...
Social protection Drought Relief ConservatismWorking Paper
Fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in developing nationsThere is scant analysis on the causal relationship between fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in the developing world...
fiscal capacity Inequality InstitutionsWorking Paper
Worker retraining and transfer payments: The political economy of social protectionWe conduct an incentive-theoretical analysis of political economy considerations in the design of social protection programmes in developing countries to accompany economic reforms...
Political economy Social protection Transfer paymentsPresentation
Social protection in developmentImproving the social protection of the poor and vulnerable is a global concern and co-operation is needed at all levels. As part of efforts to build dialogue and to better support social protection in developing countries, Jukka Pirttilä...
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The politics of promoting social protection in ZambiaThis paper examines the rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia, and demonstrates that this has two alternative drivers: shifting dynamics within Zambia’s political settlement and the promotional efforts of a transnational policy coaliti...
Cash transfers Ideas Political settlementsWorking Paper
Ideational and institutional drivers of social protection in TanzaniaIn the early 2000s, there was low elite commitment to social protection in Tanzania. Yet, in 2012, the government officially launched a countrywide social safety net programme, and a year later it announced the introduction of an old age pension...
Social protection Policy entrpreneurs Political settlementsWorking Paper
Trade, poverty, and social protection in developing countriesHow do shifts in trade affect social protections for the poor?...
Globalization and Trade Social protectionWorking Paper
Social protection in an aspiring ‘developmental state’: The political drivers of Ethiopia’s PSNPEthiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme is among the largest social protection programmes in Africa and has been promoted as a model for the continent...
Food security Political settlements Process tracingArticle
Feasibility of tax-benefit microsimulation in GhanaThe technical paper introduced in this article studies the feasibility of building a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana. The main Ghanaian tax and benefit policies are reviewed, followed by a discussion of data requirements. We conclude...
Taxation Social protection microsimulationAnnual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 20 - Direct interventions against poverty in poor places
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Press release - AL20United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in partnership with the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) will host the WIDER Annual Lecture 20 at the Stockholm School of Economics on 23...
Poverty Inequality Social protection