Conceptualising the Politics of Social Protection in Africa

摘要: In his study of the New Poor Laws in nineteenth-century England, Karl Polanyi (2001) was centrally preoccupied with forms politics that surrounded this initiative, particularly nature parliamentary process led to Speenhamland being overturned, new labelling poor involved, and impact such programmes on popular struggles agency. However, has not been accorded a significant role thinking policy-making around social protection Sub-Saharan Africa. The dominance economics field encouraged more technocratic focus protection, thus overlooking key political economy raising shaping agenda (Niles, 1999: 3; Casamatta et al., 2000: 342). Explanations for relative paucity systems countries tend suggest problem is simply lack financial administrative capacity. For example, recent World Bank focusing institutional issues framed national as purely contextual, be examined only ‘for sake completeness’ (Mathauer, 2004: 16). there growing evidence plays central initiatives than hitherto recognised.