Impact Initiative - Livelihoods: Recent submissions
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Defending Negative Freedoms: Liberalism as a Response to the Rising Authoritarianism of the Botswana Democratic Party
(Centre for Social Science Research, UCT, 2019)Botswana has received a great deal of scholarly attention for its rapid economic growth and seemingly impressive democratic performance after independence. This paper examines how self-identified liberal politicians in the ... -
Promoting Liberalism in Post-apartheid South Africa: How Liberal Politicians in the Democratic Alliance Approach Social Welfare
(Centre for Social Science Research, UCT, 2019)South African liberals find themselves in a particularly challenging context for the promotion of a political ideology that promotes the centrality of the marketin the maximisation ofindividuals’ well-being. ... -
Welfare Politics in Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2019)The emerging literature on the politics of social protection in Africa provides insights into the ways in which the unevenly changing character of representative democracy shapes processes of public policymaking in practice. ... -
Who Should Get What, How and Why? DfID and the Transnational Politics of Social Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa
(University of Cape Town, 2018)The proliferation of social cash transfers (SCTs) across much of Sub-Saharan Africa has resulted from interactions between international organisations – including both UN and related organisations, the donor agencies of ... -
The Negotiated Politics of Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa
(UNU-WIDER, 2018)Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage ... -
Namibia's Child Welfare Regime, 1990-2017
(University of Cape Town, 2018)Most countries in Southern Africa are similar in providing some form of cash transfers to families with children, primarily to reduce child poverty, but there are striking variations in the categories of children targeted ... -
The Legitimacy of Claims Made on Kin and State in South Africa
(University of Cape Town, 2018)Conflict over redistribution through the welfare state is likely to be framed by the perceived legitimacy of the claims made on it. A distinction between deserving and undeserving people is not only fundamental to the ... -
The International Labour Organization's Measure of Legal Health Coverage: Is it Conceptually Strong?
(University of Cape Town, 2018)In 2014, the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued its annual World Social Protection Report. This report aimed to provide practical information on social protection that could be used by stakeholders for the ... -
The Limits to 'Global' Social Policy: The ILO, the Social Protection Floor and the Politics of Welfare in Africa
(University of Cape Town, 2018)Bob Deacon’s study of the Social Protection Floors initiative, led by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) entailed a pioneering study of the making of global social policy. Just how global is this ‘global social ... -
South Africa's Hybrid Care Regime: The Changing and Contested Roles of Individuals, Families and the State after Apartheid
(SAGE, 2018)The post-apartheid state in South Africa inherited a care regime that historically combined liberal, social democratic and conservative features. The post-apartheid state has sought to deracialise the care regime, through ... -
Familial Child Welfare Regimes: The Case of Botswana, 1966-2017
(University of Cape Town, 2018)Most Anglophone countries in Southern Africa provide a form of social cash transfers (SCTs) to families with children but do so in different ways. Botswana is a case of a “familial child welfare regime”, in that public ... -
Pro-poor Birth Coverage and Child Health in Africa
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)This paper explores which African countries had relatively low rates of underweight children and relatively high birth coverage (percentage of births with a skilled attendant) in the poorest quintile. Swaziland and Rwanda ... -
Social Protection, Intergenerational Relationships and Conflict in South Africa
(University of Cape Town, 2018)It has long been acknowledged that social protection contributes to patterns of stratification but there is little attention paid to the ways in which it creates conflict and inequalities in intergenerational relationships ... -
The International Labour Organization's Measure of Legal Health Coverage: Is it Reliable?
(University of Cape Town, 2018)The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 2014/2014 World Social Protection Report included several indicators for quantifying the expansion of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), including measures for both effective and ... -
The Economic Significance of Laws Relating to Employment Protection and Different Forms of Employment: Analysis of a Panel of 117 Countries, 1990-2013
(Wiley, 2018)The authors use time series econometric analysis applying non‐stationary panel data methods to estimate the relationships between employment protection legislation and legal protection of different forms of employment ... -
The Use of Quantitative Methods in Labour Law Research an Assessment and Reformulation
(SAGE Publications, 2018)This article considers the potential and limits of quantitative approaches to labour law research. It explores the methods used to construct and validate indicators of labour regulation (‘leximetrics’) and those used in ... -
Assessing 'Approaches to Learning' in Botswana, Ghana and Kenya
(SAGE, 2019)The concept of ‘approaches to learning’ (Marton, 1976) has long assumed a position of central importance in the analysis of student learning outcomes. However, constructing effective measures of students’ approaches to ... -
Determining Dimensions of Poverty Applicable in China: A Qualitative Study in Guizhou
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)While China has succeeded in dramatically reducing income poverty, it is increasingly recognized that poverty is multidimensional. Moreover, all countries are expected under the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to halve ... -
Anti-poverty Policies and Discourses of Blame in China
(Australian National University, 2019)Under Xi Jinping, the Chinese authorities have promised to eradicate rural poverty in the country by 2020. Since it was first announced, this goal has entered the popular imagination, becoming a major engine of policy ... -
Poverty, Shame and Ethics in Contemporary China
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)Taking China as a critical case, this article questions recent literature that asserts that shame attached to poverty is both ubiquitous and always problematic. In China, the concepts of shame, loss of face, lian (integrity) ...