This paper reviews existing perspectives on the politics and governance of social assistance
in crises from the bottom up–from sub-national regions (or states/provinces) down to …

Recent years have seen a growing emphasis on the mainstreaming and integration of
climate change strategies to make social protection systems more adaptive and effective for …

In 2017 the government of Kenya transformed its poverty-targeted older persons cash
transfer into a '70-plus' social pension. While the literature suggests that a switch from …

The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in a context where
informal labour markets constitute the norm, and where most workers live uncertain …

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Since late 2021, the US has experienced the highest cumulative rate of deaths from Covid-
19-related causes of any developed country in the world. Why this is the case invites serious …

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 …

The understanding of the political economy of energy transitions in lower-income African
countries is little developed. A focus on coalitions has emerged as a promising approach …

This article draws on an institutional approach to compare social policy responses and
changes between the Asian Financial Crisis and the current Covid-19 Pandemic crisis in …

Social cash transfers (CTs) have expanded considerably in Africa over the last decade.
While the largest programmes are run by public institutions, non-state actors are …