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Subject(s)

• Child welfare—Africa [Browse]
• Children—Africa—Social conditions [Browse]
• Children—Africa—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Children [Browse]
• Africa [Browse]

Related name

• Handa, Sudhanshu, 1965- [Browse]
• Devereux, Stephen, 1959- [Browse]
• Webb, Douglas, 1970- [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in development economics ; 86. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in development economics ; 86 [More in this series]

Summary note

Social Protection for Africa's Children is divided into four parts. The first presents economic and human-rights-based right arguments for social protection as an integral part of the social policy menu in Africa. This is followed by a part on targeting, which highlights some of the key policy trade-offs faced when deciding between alternative target groups. The third part presents rigorous quantitative evidence on the impact of social cash transfers on children from programs in South Africa, Malawi and Ethiopia, and the final part addresses a set of issues related to social justice and human rights. This book significantly advances existing knowledge about social protection for children in Africa, both conceptually and empirically.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Social protection for Africa's children / Stephen Devereux, Douglas Webb, and Sudhanshu Handa
• The case for social protection for children / Lorraine Blank, Stephen Devereux, and Sudhanshu Handa
• Reaching orphans and vulnerable children through cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa : simulation results from alternative targeting schemes / Scott R. Stewart and Sudhanshu Handa
• Targeting of Kenya's cash transfer program for orphans and vulnerable children / Sudhanshu Handa ... [et al.].
• The impact of Ethiopia's productive safety net program on schooling and child labor / John Hoddinott, Daniel O. Gilligan, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
• Impacts on children of cash transfer in Malawi / Candace Miller, Maxton Grant Tsoka, and Kathryn Reichert
• Impacts of South Africa's child support grant / Michael Samson ... [et al.].
• Lessons learned from the campaigns to expand the child support grant in South Africa / Paula Proudlock
• Children and AIDS as a driver of social protection / Douglas Webb
• Child vulnerability and community coping mechanisms : implications for social protection policy in Africa / Erick Otieno Nyambedha
• Transformative social protection for Africa's children / Stephen Devereux and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler.

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ISBN

• 9780415583336 ((hbk.))
• 0415583330 ((hbk.))
• 9780203842812 ((ebk.))
• 0203842812 ((ebk.))

LCCN

2010011650

OCLC

515424906

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