Making a living and securing basic necessities in challenging environments. Including issues such as: social protection, climate change, resource scarcity, human capital, disabilities, resilience, and wellbeing.
Social Protection and Disability: A Call for Action
This project examines the living conditions and sources of finance and social support, among older people living in the seven poorest countries of the former Soviet Union through the socio-economic transformations of the last 15 years.
Examining the politics of welfare programmes in Africa, i.e. what ‘works’ politically and why, and analysing the political conditions and factors that either favour or impede the implementation of social assistance programmes.
Regulating access to the disability grant in South Africa, 1990-2013 (WP 332)
Kin, Market and State in the Provision of Care in South Africa (WP 327, 2013)
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Infrastructuring Aid: Materializing Social Protection in Northern Kenya (WP 333)
The Biometric Imaginary: Standardization and Objectivity in Post-Apartheid Welfare (WP 335)
India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act contains transparency mechanisms to ensure that resources and information reach the poor. This project assesses the Act to examine the degree that transparency mechanisms enhance poor people's access to information.
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