Twenty years after the ending of apartheid, South Africa continues to struggle with the legacy
of the impact of apartheid policies on family life. The migrant labour system reinforced by …

By leveraging a comparison of Brazil's Bolsa Família and South Africa's Child Support Grant,
this article probes whether and how income transfer programs enhance the standing of …

The first decades of the twenty-first century witnessed unprecedented gains in social
development for the poorest citizens of the global South. In Latin America, the share of the …

This book intends to address a gap in the literature on contemporary social protection,
welfare services and social development theory, policy and practice in the global South. This …

Social protection is one of the most recent, yet fastest growing social policy instruments in
low and middle income countries to end poverty. At least 50 countries in Africa have non …

The COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic is seen as the most severe global disaster in history
since the Second World War. How do two similar previously disadvantaged communities …

Despite the growing speculation about the electoral power of poor voters, little is known
about what influences them to vote the way they do and why. Poor communities are often …

Election has become the most acceptable means of changing leadership in any given
political system. It evaluates the acceptability of government and political leadership by …

The study investigated the role of social protection programme in supporting children's
education at post-primary education level. The study focused on the non-contributory …

This chapter first defines social protection and locates it within the social development
approach. Then, it provides a geographical and historical overview of social protection and …