The new phase of social protection expansion in the global south remains poorly
understood. Current interpretations of the spread of social transfers in sub-Saharan Africa …

Motivation Social cash transfer programmes (SCTs) have spread rapidly in sub‐Saharan
Africa during the last decade. However, there is little consensus on how this has happened …

The rise of social protection for the past two decades has largely been domestically driven,
starting with anti-poverty cash transfers in Mexico and Brazil and then spreading across …

Targeting remains a highly contentious aspect of social protection design, despite the
growing body of evidence on various targeting mechanisms. While targeting is often framed …

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 …

A growing literature explains the diffusion of social protection policies and, in particular, cash
transfer programmes throughout Africa since the early 2000s as a paradigmatic policy …

Motivation International donors piloted social cash transfers in Africa in the 2000s.
Successful pilots need to be expanded, to be nationally owned, and to be funded by regular …

This paper challenges existing analyses of party cleavages in Sub-Saharan Africa which
over-emphasise the centrality of ethnicity. Parties express ideological positions that reflect …

Social protection policy has long been shaped and sometimes driven by international or
transnational actors (see Chapter 10). Imperial states sometimes imposed policies on their …

Few scholars would question that there has been a “Global Rise of Social Cash
Transfers”(Leisering 2019). Since the “quiet revolution” of social protection expansion …