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The politics of social protection in Eastern and Southern Africa: Actors, institutions and dynamicsSince the mid-1990s, there has been in Africa something of a ‘quiet revolution’ in poverty reduction strategies with the proliferation of social assistance programmes that entail cash transfers to the poor...
Social protection Social assistance International development organizationsJournal Article
Welfare and Redistributive Effects of Social Assistance in the Global SouthPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Social assistance Social protection PovertyPresentation
CANCELLED - Launch of World Bank white paper - Protecting All: Risk-Sharing in a Diverse and Diversifying World
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The case for universal social insurance in Latin America
Access to effective social insurance in Latin America is typically determined by workers’ status in the labor market – whether they have formal or informal jobs...
Social assistance Social protection social health insuranceBook Chapter
Who should get what, how and why?: DfID and the transnational politics of social cash transfers in sub-Saharan AfricaFrom the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Africa Policy transfer PoliticsBook Chapter
Social assistance, electoral competition, and political branding in MalawiFrom the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Elections Political branding Social protectionBook Chapter
The politics of promoting social cash transfers in ZambiaFrom the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Cash transfers Ideas Political settlementsBook Chapter
Pushing for policy innovation: The framing of social protection policies in TanzaniaFrom the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Social protection Policy entrpreneurs Political settlementsBook Chapter
Distributional concerns, the ‘developmental state’ and the agrarian origins of social assistance in EthiopiaFrom the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Food security Political settlements Process tracingBook Chapter
Building a conservative welfare state in BotswanaFrom the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Social protection Drought Relief ConservatismBook
The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern AfricaThe notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been mainstreamed within international development policy and practice...
Social protection Social assistance International development organizationsAnnual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 23 - Informality: addressing the Achilles heel of social protection in Latin America
Working Paper
Winning or buying hearts and minds?: Cash transfers and political attitudes in PakistanThis paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally exogenous eligibility cut-off of the flagship Benazir Income Support Programme to estimate causal effects...
Social protection Political attitudes Cash transfersWorking Paper
Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global SouthThis paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transi...
Social assistance Social protection Poverty