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Working Paper

The negotiated politics of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa

Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted this. The...

Blog

What is next for development effectiveness in a post-aid world?

by Nilima Gulrajani December 2022

Improving the effectiveness of global development spending may seem like a fool's errand given the state of the world today. Yet this is precisely the...

Book Chapter

The negotiated politics of social protection in East and Southern Africa

Part of Book The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

Book

The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

The 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. Promoted as an integral dimension of the post-Washington Consensus...

Policy Brief

The politics of social protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

Since 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. The past two decades have also been...

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