- Title
- ‘Growing’ social protection in developing countries: lessons from Brazil and South Africa
- Creator
- Barrientos, Armando
- Creator
- Moller, Valerie
- Creator
- Saboia, Joao
- Creator
- Lloyd-Sherlock, Peter
- Creator
- Mase, Julia
- Date Issued
- 2013
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67195
- Identifier
- vital:29058
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2013.756098
- Description
- publisher version
- Description
- The rapid expansion of social protection in the South provides a rich diversity of experiences and lessons on how best to reduce poverty and ultimately eradicate it. Knowledge on how best to ‘grow’ social assistance, understood as long-term institutions responsible for reducing and preventing poverty, is at a premium. This article examines the expansion of social assistance in Brazil and South Africa, two of the middle income countries widely perceived to have advanced furthest in ‘growing’ social protection. It examines three aspects: the primacy of politics in explaining the expansion of social protection and assistance, the tensions between path-dependence and innovation in terms of institutions and practices, and the poverty and inequality outcomes of social assistance expansion. The article concludes by drawing the main lessons for other developing countries.
- Format
- 14 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Development Southern Africa
- Relation
- Barrientos, A., Moller, V., Saboia, J., Lloyd-Sherlock, P. & Mase, J. (2013) ‘Growing’ social protection in developing countries: Lessons from Brazil and South Africa, Development Southern Africa, 30:1, 54-68, DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2013.756098
- Relation
- Development Southern Africa volume 30 number 1 54 68 January 2013 1470-3637
- Rights
- Routledge
- Rights
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