Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South
from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some …

Bob Deacon's study of the Social Protection Floors initiative, led by the International Labour
Organisation (ILO), entailed a pioneering study of the making of global social policy. Just …

Since the mid-1990s there has been something of a 'quiet revolution'in poverty reduction
strategies with the proliferation and expansion of social assistance programmes that entail …

In 2013, Zambia's then Minister of Finance announced that there would be a 700 per cent
increase in the budget for what was then a pilot social cash transfer programme. The move …

Social cash transfers (SCTs) proliferated across much of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from the
early 2000s (Garcia and Moore 2012; Bastiagli etal. 2016).'Social protection', which was …

Elected politicians sit at the interface between the state and the citizens and play a critical
role in shaping the social contract. This article presents rare insights into the participation of …

Policymaking is no longer exclusively a national affair. Due to globalisation, global agendas
easily influence and permeate national plans through policy transfer, diffusion and learning …

The'affordability'of new or expanded social protection programmes depends on more than
an assessment of the fiscal costs or the poverty-reducing or developmental benefits. Diverse …

In Zambia, as in much of Africa, the introduction of 'social cash transfers' was driven by
donors and international agencies. Donors initiated pilot cash transfer programmes in …

Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children.
It is not clear whether child poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic …