Changing social policy: the child support grant in South Africa
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780796922007
Category
ECCE, Preschool
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Publication Year
2008
Publisher
HSRC Press, Cape Town, South Africa
URL
[ private ]
Pages
160 p.
Subject
Early childhood development, ECD programmes, Poverty, Inequality, Poor children, Child support grant, Policy reform, South Africa
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Abstract
Changing Social Policy deals with broad subject matter. It concerns South Africa in transition - a middle-income country located somewhere between the north and the south. The new government had to deal with racialised patterns of extreme poverty and inequality which determined in profound ways people's life chances. In the pre-apartheid and apartheid eras, there had developed a system of state social assistance in the form of cash transfers that performed its limited social objectives relatively well. This book is about a case study of the reform of one part of that system. It led to the introduction of an unconditional cash transfer, aimed at young children in poor households, reached through the child's main caregiver, for a limited number of years. [from Thandika Mkandawire's Foreword]
Number of Copies
1
