| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Extending social security to the excluded
— are social cash transfers to the poor an appropriate way of fighting poverty in developing countries? | | Author(s) | Lutz Leisering |
| Journal title | Global Social Policy, vol 9, no 2, August 2009 |
| Pages | pp 246-272 |
| Source | http://www.sagepublications.com |
| Keywords | Social security [generally] ; Social security benefits ; Poverty ; Social economics ; Developing countries. |
| Annotation | Formal social security in developing countries has long been centred on employees in the formal sector of the economy, and the majority of the population has been excluded. Since the turn of the 21st century, international organisations have called for extending the coverage of social social security. This article analyses a recent strategy of extending social security, social cash transfers (SCT) to the poor. The article traces the rise of SCT as a global issue; describes and classifies SCT in the global South; and inquires into the "appropriateness" of SCT in a development context (J Midgley, 2008). SCT is found to have spread to all world regions, and that SCT covers a highly diverse institutional landscape. Evidence on appropriateness is inconclusive at this early stage of SCT, As yet, the call for social security for all is largely "decoupled" (J W Meyer et al, 1997) from the realities of developing countries. But the semantics of "SCT" has opened up a new arena of consensus and conflict in global social policy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090914214 A |
| Classmark | TYA: JH: W6: W4: 7B |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|