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Poverty traps and the social protection paradox
Ikegami, Munenobu; Carter, Michael R.; Barrett, … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011562998
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The global politics of social protection
Hickey, Sam; Seekings, Jeremy - 2017
Since the early 2000s international development agencies have actively promoted social protection as a new global public policy. This process can be understood as flowing from related shifts within the global political economy and of development ideology, and involved international development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646247
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Poverty traps and the social protection paradox
Ikegami, Munenobu; Carter, Michael R.; Barrett, … - In: The economics of poverty traps, (pp. 223-256). 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968775
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Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox
Ikegami, Munenobu - 2016
Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries …. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981626
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Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox
Ikegami, Munenobu - 2016
Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries …. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455966
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The negotiated politics of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa
Hickey, Sam; Lavers, Tom; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; … - 2018
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 existing literature on social assistance, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806799
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The Negotiated Politics of Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hickey, Sam - 2018
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 existing literature on social assistance, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925715
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The politics of promoting social protection in Zambia
Pruce, Kate; Hickey, Sam - 2016
This 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 coalition. We compare the cases of social cash transfers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573885
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Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa : Will the Green Shoots Blossom?
Niño‐Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014
This paper provides an overview of the recent extension of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa. It identifies two main ‘models' of social protection in the region: the Southern Africa and Middle Africa models. It then assesses the contrasting policy processes behind these models and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069931