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The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa (Hardcover)
Series: WIDER Studies in Development Economics
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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 all major
international development agencies and bilateral donors now include
a strong focus on social protection in their advocacy and
programmatic interventions and a commitment to providing social
protection was recently enshrined within the Sustainable
Development Goals. The rhetoric around social protection,
particularly when delivered in the form of cash transfers, has
sometimes reached hyperbolic proportions with advocates seeing it
as a magic bullet that can tackle multi-dimensional problems of
poverty, vulnerability, and inequality and a southern-led success
story that challenges the unequal power relations inherent within
international aid. The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and
Southern Africa challenges the common conception that this
phenomenon has been entirely driven by international development
agencies, instead focusing on the critical role of political
dynamics within specific African countries. It details how the
power and politics at multiple levels of governance shapes the
extent to which political elites are committed to social
protection, the form that this commitment takes, and the
implications that this has for future welfare regimes and
state-citizen relations in Africa. It reveals how international
pressures only take hold when they become aligned with the
incentives and ideas of ruling elites in particular contexts. It
shows how elections, the politics of clientelism, political
ideologies, and elite perceptions all play powerful roles in
shaping when countries adopt social protection and at what levels,
which groups receive benefits, and how programmes are delivered.
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