Social protection describes all public and private initiatives that provide income or
consumption transfers to the poor, protect the vulnerable against livelihood risks, and …

Social protection emerged as a critical response to the 'safety nets' discourse of the late
1980s and early 1990s. In the World Development Report 1990, for example, safety nets …

This article explores changing growth regimes in Uganda, from pro‐poor growth in the
1990s to growth without poverty reduction, actually even with a slight increase in poverty …

We explore how the introduction of formal insurance affects the within-village dynamics of
social capital in south-western Uganda. As a proxy for social capital, we use contributions in …

The return of interstate war in Africa after the end of the cold war and global awareness of
predatory economic motivations for war raises the question of whether African states are …

This title was first published in 2001. Challenging conventional approaches to the delivery of
sustainable" social protection" to the elderly in developing countries (DCs) and assessing …

In the late 1990s the bilateral and multilateral development agencies came to place
increasing policy emphasis on poverty reduction in developing countries. 78 Some agencies …

Recent development literature has placed priority on poverty reduction, and on possible
growth enhancement from a more equal distribution of assets and income. At the same time …

This article illustrates changing growth regimes in Uganda from pro-poor growth in the
1990s to growth without poverty reduction, actually even a slight increase in poverty, after …

Community or interpersonal support is a critical source to sustain livelihoods in the Global
South. At the same time, these practices can exhibit unequal dynamics such as …