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Social Protection in Southern Africa: New Opportunities for Social Development book cover

1st Edition

Social Protection in Southern Africa New Opportunities for Social Development

Edited By Leila Patel, James Midgley, Marianne Ulriksen Copyright 2014
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge
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A new generation of innovative social protection strategies is emerging in southern Africa. Although cash transfers are most prevalent, some country strategies include combinations of interventions such as food, livelihood inputs and support, asset building, public works and social services. The strategies vary in their commitment to social rights, their institutional and funding arrangements,... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Social development and social protection: New opportunities and challenges 3. Trajectories of social protection in Africa 4. Social protection, redistribution and economic growth 5. The politics of social protection expenditure and financing in southern Africa 6. ‘Growing’ social protection in developing countries: Lessons from Brazil and South Africa 7. Gender and child sensitive social protection in South Africa 8. The contribution of non-formal social protection to social development in Botswana 9. Social protection in Lesotho: Innovations and reform challenges 10. Are social protection programmes child-sensitive? 11. Tackling child poverty in South Africa: Implications of ubuntu for the system of social grants 12. The South African disability grant: Influence on HIV treatment outcomesand household well-being in KwaZulu-Natal

Biography

Leila Patel is Professor of Social Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She has published widely on social welfare, social protection, gender and social development in the African context. James Midgley is the Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services and Visiting Professor, Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published widely on issues of social development, social protection and international social welfare. Marianne S. Ulriksen is affiliated to the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, as a Senior Research Fellow. Currently residing in Tanzania, Marianne’s research includes: Comparative politics, political economy of welfare policy development, social protection, poverty and inequality, mineral wealth and resource mobilisation, and state-citizens relations.

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