This article reviews the literature on the causes of welfare state expansion in democratic
middle‐income countries across the Global South since the 2000s. After discussing …

Grounded in social-contractual ideas about relationships between the governed and those
who govern, the provision of social benefits to citizens has historically been predicated on …

Rwanda is the country with the highest enrolment in health insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Pivotal in setting Rwanda on the path to universal health coverage (UHC) is the community …

Few concepts have captured the imagination of the conflict and development communities in
recent years as powerfully as the idea of a 'political settlement'. At its most ambitious,'political …

The political settlements approach emerged out of a critique of new institutional economics
developed by Mushtaq Khan in the 1990s. Since then, the political settlements approach …

The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted manifold social policy responses all around the
world. This article presents the findings of a meta-analysis of thirty-six in-depth country …

In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the issue
of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of …

This article explores how the present socio-economic crisis in Mozambique is linked to the
prospects of natural resource windfalls for the country. Drawing on the political settlement …

Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that
is what we, as donor publics, are constantly told. The result is a highly dysfunctional aid …

The title of this article draws on a Yorùbá aphorism that roughly translates into 'don't sell me
a dummy'. The dark side of social policy, the theme of this Debate, has a distinct character in …