Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Getting the Politics Right
In: Niño-Zarazúa , M , Barrientos , A , Hickey , S & Hulme , D 2012 , ' Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Getting the Politics Right ' World Development , vol 40 , no. 1 , pp. 163-176 . DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.04.004
This paper provides an overview of the recent extension of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa. It identifies two main " models" of social protection in the region: one based on age-based income transfers in the middle income countries in Southern Africa, and another more diverse and incipient group of programs providing a mix of poverty-based transfers in the low income countries in Eastern, Central, and West Africa. It concludes that for an effective institutional framework for social protection to evolve in sub-Saharan Africa, the present focus on the technical design of programs needs to be accompanied by analyses that contribute to also " getting the politics right." © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.