The politics of social protection in Eastern and Southern Africa / / edited by Sam Hickey, Tom Lavers, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, and Jeremy Seekings.

• Superior document: UNU-WIDER studies in development economics
• TeilnehmendeR: Hickey, Samuel, 1972-; Lavers, Tom,; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel,; Seekings, Jeremy,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: UNU-WIDER studies in development economics.; Oxford scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 286 pages).
• Notes: This edition previously issued in print: 2019.; "This is an open access publication. Except where otherwise noted, this work is distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial- Share Alike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO)"--Home page.

Why have so many countries in Africa adopted social protection programmes over the past decade? This text challenges the common assumption that this phenomenon has been entirely driven by international development agencies, instead focusing on the critical role of political dynamics within specific...