The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Since the mid-1990s there has been a transformation of poverty reduction strategies with the proliferation of social assistance programmes that entail direct cash or in-kind transfers to the poor. In this publication by
UNU-WIDER, Sam Hickey, Tom Lavers, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, and Jeremy Seekings examine how and why social assistance programmes have expanded at different paces and to different extents, across countries in east and southern Africa. They argue that African political agency has powerfully influenced the contested expansion of social protection, with countries providing the highest levels of social protection driven more by domestic political imperatives than external pressure.
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