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Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to Wellbeing: Life Histories and Self-Determination Theory in Rural Zambia
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)What are the prospects for a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary and methodologically plural approach to wellbeing? This question is addressed using Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a psychological theory based on quantitative ... -
Bangladesh Farmers Push for Temporary Flooding to Correct Dutch Polder Failure
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020)Controlling floods and raising rice production in Bangladesh have been the centres of struggle for nearly a century—between North and South, and between engineering solutions and local knowledge. Decades of disastrous ... -
Climate Change and Declining Levels of Green Structures: Life in Informal Settlements of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(Published by Elsevier B.V., 2018)Impacts of climate change are often acute for those who live in informal settlements, the places where poverty,inequality and deprivation are concentrated in cities across the developing world. To broaden the strategies ... -
Measuring lnequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World's Most Unequal Region?
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2018)In this paper we combine household surveys, national accounts, income tax data and wealth data in order to estimate income concentration in the Middle East for the period 1990–2016. According to our benchmark series, the ... -
Top Wealth Shares in the UK Over More Than a Century
(Elsevier, 2018)Recent research highlighted controversy about the evolution of concentration of personal wealth. In this paper we provide new evidence about the long-run evolution of top wealth shares for the United Kingdom. The new series ... -
Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration
(Oxford University and John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking selective out‐migration into account using administrative data from the Netherlands. Addressing a limitation in the previous literature, we address the potential endogeneity ... -
International Migration as a Driver of Political and Social Change: Evidence from Morocco
(John Wiley and Sons, 2019)This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, this paper explores whether households with return and current migrants ... -
'Classes of Labour' at the Margins of Global Commodity Chains in India and China 'Classes of Labour' at the Margins of Global Commodity Chains
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018)This article deploys the concept of ‘classes of labour’ to map and compare non‐factory labour relations in the garment chain across Delhi and Shanghai metropolitan areas. It contributes to commodity studies by unpacking ... -
Consequences of Social Protection on Intergenerational Relationships in South Africa: Introduction
(SAGE, 2019)Categorically-targeted social assistance programmes have considerable potential to reduce poverty and buttress the dignity of disadvantaged groups of people, but they can also generate tensions over financial support and ... -
Social Assistance, Electoral Competition, and Political Branding in Malawi
(UNU-WIDER, 2019)The proliferation of social assistance programmes across Africa has coincided with redemocratization, i.e. the return of multi-party systems with regular, competitive elections in place of one-party states and military ... -
The Conditional Legitimacy of Claims Made by Mothers and Other Kin in South Africa
(SAGE, 2019)Because redistribution concerns ‘who gets what and from whom’, redistributive conflicts revolve around ‘who should get what and from whom’. Individuals as well as states distinguish between deserving and undeserving ... -
The Politics of Social Protection Policy Reform in Malawi, 2006-2017
(Centre for Social Science Research, UCT, 2019)The literature on the expansion of social protection in Africa contends that domestic politics matters for policy reforms. This includes literature that argues that repeated competitive elections and changes ... -
Pushing for Policy Innovation: the Framing of Social Protection Policies in Tanzania
((UNU-WIDER), 2019)In the early 2000s, there was low elite commitment to social protection on mainland Tanzania. Being a low-income country, Tanzania has high levels of deprivation and high demand for income security, but limited resources ... -
Social Grants and Voting in South Africa
(Centre for Social Science Research, 2019)Social grants are paid monthly for about one in three South Africans. This paper examines both the positive and negative effects of social grants on voters’ support for the incumbent party in South Africa. I examine the ... -
Disability, Cash Transfers and Family Practices in South Africa
(SAGE, 2019)Relative to other low and middle-income countries, South Africa provides a generous set of cash transfers (social grants) targeted at people with disabilities. This article explores the influence of disability-related ... -
Who Should Get What, How, and Why? DfID and the Transnational Politics of Social Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa
(UNU-WIDER, 2019)Social cash transfers (SCTs) proliferated across much of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from the early 2000s (Garcia and Moore 2012; Bastiagli et al. 2016). ‘Social protection’, which was variously defined but always included ... -
The Limits to 'Global' Social Policy: The ILO, the Social Protection Floor and the Politics of Welfare in East and Southern Africa
(SAGE, 2019)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 ... -
Liberalism as a Manifestation of the Ideals and Values of Zambia's Southern Province: The United Party for National Development and the Promotion of Self-reliance Through Social Welfare
(Centre for Social Science Research, UCT, 2019)Despite the impressive rise of the United Party for National Development (UPND) on the Zambian political scene since its formation in 1998, little academic research has been conducted on the party. This paper examines ... -
Building a Conservative Welfare State in Botswana
(UNU-WIDER, 2019)Overviews of welfare regimes in Africa distinguish typically between themiddle-income countries of southern Africa (including Botswana) and the lower-income countries elsewhere on the continent (Garcia and Moore 2012;Niño-Zarazúa ... -
Policy Diffusion, Domestic Politics, and Social Assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012
(UNU-WIDER, 2019)In the 2000s interest in the use of cash transfer programmes grew across much of sub-Saharan Africa (Garcia and Moore 2012; Niño-Zarazúa et al. 2012), and unconditional cash transfers began to replace food aid as the central ...
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