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What is next for development effectiveness in a post-aid world?
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...
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The negotiated politics of social protection in East and Southern AfricaPart of Book The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
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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. Promoted as an integral dimension of the post-Washington Consensus...
Policy Brief
The politics of social protection in Eastern and Southern AfricaSince 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...
Working Paper
The negotiated politics of social protection in sub-Saharan AfricaSocial 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...
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