The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Series: WIDER Studies in Development Economics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 November 2019
- ISBN 9780198850342
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages310 pages
- Size 235x161x22 mm
- Weight 614 g
- Language English 13
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Short description:
Why have so many countries in Africa adopted social protection programmes over the past decade? This book challenges the common assumption that this phenomenon has been entirely driven by international development agencies, instead focusing on the critical role of political dynamics within specific African countries.
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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.
Based on outstanding multi-country research programmes at Cape Town, Manchester and UNU-WIDER, the contributions collected in this volume skilfully lay bare the politics of social assistance in sub-Saharan Africa, and the research toolbox required to do so. The volume makes a huge contribution to our understanding of emerging welfare institutions in the region and will be indispensable reading for researchers and policy makers worldwide.
Table of Contents:
The negotiated politics of social protection in East and Southern Africa
Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana
Distributional concerns, the 'developmental state', and the agrarian origins of social assistance in Ethiopia
Understanding elite commitment to social protection: Rwanda's Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme
Pushing for policy innovation: the framing of social protection policies in Tanzania
Policy diffusion, domestic politics, and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012
The politics of promoting social cash transfers in Zambia
The politics of promoting social protection in Uganda: a comparative analysis of social cash transfers and social health insurance
Social assistance, electoral competition, and political branding in Malawi
Who should get what, how, and why? DfID and the transnational politics of social cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa
